Summary:
General Ulysses S. Grant writes Henry Halleck in May, 1864, to ask that General Franz Sigel be sent to Staunton to destroy the road there, and prevent the flow of more Confederate supplies from the town.

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Maj.-Gen. HALLECK:

May 17, 1864. (Received 3.45 p. m.)

Cannot Gen. Sigel go up Shenandoah Valley to Staunton? The enemy is evidently drawing supplies largely from that source, and if Sigel can destroy the road there, it will be of vast importance to us. The weather is still cloudy and threatening, as if the rain was not yet over.

U. S. GRANT,
Lieut.-Gen., U. S. Army.

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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 36, Serial No. 68, Pages 840, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.