Summary:
This April, 1864, dispatch, musters a battalion of Confederate cavalry into service and sends it to Camp Maryland at Staunton.

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Col. WITHERS:

APRIL 26, 1864.

Order Gilmor's battalion to be mustered into the cavalry service, and to repair to Camp Maryland, Staunton. Citizens of Virginia who are enlisted men of any company of this battalion may, if they desire it, be transferred to Virginia companies.

MELTON.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 33, Serial No. 60, Pages 1253, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.