Summary:
Union General Benjamin F. Kelley reports that a refugee observed Confederate General John Imboden moving west through Staunton with his troops in this February, 1864, letter.

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Col. MULLIGAN, New Creek:

CUMBERLAND,

February 21, 1864.

A refugee reports Imboden passing through Staunton a few days since, going toward Monterey, with 2,000 men and artillery. Send a small mounted scout up on the west side of Knobly Mountain and communicate with Capt. Harper, of the "Swamps," and learn if he has any information of Imboden; if not, get him to send a scout to Crab Bottom for the purpose of ascertaining if Imboden is in that country or gone west.

B. F. KELLEY,
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 583, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.