Summary:
Union General Benjamin Butler notifies General Grant of General David Hunter's victory over Confederate William E. Jones, and the subsequent occupation of Staunton.

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Lieut.-Gen. GRANT,
White House:

JUNE 7, 1864

All quiet on my lines. Richmond paper of June 7 gives intelligence of a fight at Mount Crawford between Gen. Hunter and Gen. W. E. Jones, in which Hunter was victorious, and Jones, the rebel commander, was killed. Staunton was afterward occupied by the Union forces.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Maj.-Gen., Cmdg.

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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. 69, Pages 691, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.