Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: W. MERRITT, Brig.-Gen.
January 4, 1864.

Summary:
Union cavalry general Wesley Merritt reports to Captain E. B. Parsons that two Confederate divisions moved to Gordonsville and Staunton in January, 1864.


Capt. E. B. PARSONS,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen.:

Culpeper, Va.,

January 4, 1864.

All quiet on the lines. Four deserters from the Fourth Alabama Infantry came in to-day. Their accounts are rather mixed. They say Heth's and Johnson's divisions have gone to Gordonsville and Staunton.

W. MERRITT,
Brig.-Gen.


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


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