Summary:
Union General Benjamin Butler writes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to notify him of General David Hunter's June, 1864, victory over Confederates under William E. Jones, and the subsequent occupation of Staunton.

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Hon. E. M. STANTON:

June 8, 1864. (Received 1.15 p.m.)

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

B. 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 704, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.