Summary:
These April, 1864, Confederate Special Orders send General Arnold Elzey to Staunton to take command of the Maryland Line.

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Richmond, Va.,

April 25, 1864.

XVIII. Brig. Gen. G. C. Wharton, with the troops under his command (the Fifty-first Regt. and the Thirtieth Battalion Virginia Volunteers), will proceed by railroad to Dublin Depot, Va., and report for duty to Maj. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, commanding, &c.

XXXII. Maj. Gen. R. Ransom, jr., is assigned to the command of the Department of Richmond, and will relieve Maj. Gen. A. Elzey. The latter, on being relieved, will repair to Staunton, where he will establish his headquarters as commander of the Maryland Line.

By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-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 1312, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.