Summary:
Union General Jeremiah C. Sullivan writes General Benjamin F. Kelley in February, 1864, to propose a cavalry raid in the Shenandoah Valley, perhaps as far as Staunton.

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Brig. Gen. B. F. KELLEY,
Cmdg. Department of West Virginia:

Harper's Ferry,

February 15, 1864.

GEN.:

If it meets with your approval, I propose sending my cavalry up the valley as far as they can go, at the same time sending a party through Front Royal and Luray to try and cut the railroad at Waynesborough. I have a fine cavalry command, and I think it will be of benefit to them to go on such an expedition. If Averell's command could be sent to Moorefield and Petersburg at the same time, I think I could reach Harrisonburg, or even Staunton, without trouble.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JER. C. SULLIVAN,
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 564, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.