Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: C. A. DANA.
June 9, 1864--10 p.m. (Received 2.30 a.m., 10th.)

Summary:
Union Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana writes Edwin M. Stanton with the details of David Hunter's June, 1864, victory near Staunton, VA.


Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

COLD HARBOR, VA.,

June 9, 1864--10 p.m.
(Received 2.30 a.m., 10th.)

All quiet here since my last dispatch. A deserter who came into our lines this afternoon reports that Hunter's victory at Staunton was much more complete than the Richmond papers reported. Hunter took twenty cannon, many prisoners, and great quantities of stores. The force he defeated was recently a part of the command of Breckinridge.

C. A. DANA.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 36, Serial No. 67, Pages 94, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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