Summary:
Confederate General John Echols writes General John Breckinridge concerning efforts to impress supplies in April, 1864. Echols mentions the lack of foodstuffs in the Valley, and reports having to send to Staunton to borrow food.

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Gen. BRECKINRIDGE, Dublin:

UNION,

April 11, 1864.

Your dispatch just received . I will do all that I can. There is nothing in this country to impress. I am trying to gather up a few potatoes. I have sent an agent to Staunton to try and borrow something for a few days, if he cannot do anything else. The men are on half rations of breadstuffs. I can work along four or five days longer.

JOHN ECHOLS,
Brig.-Gen.

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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 1274, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.