Summary:
Confederate Colonel Edwin Lee reports to Robert E. Lee on the June 5, 1864, defeat at the battle of Piedmont. Lee expresses his fear that Staunton will fall to the Union army.

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Gen. R. E. LEE,
Cmdg. Army of Northern Virginia.

STAUNTON,

June 5, 1864.

We have been pretty badly whipped. Gen. W. E. Jones killed. Gen. Vaughn in command. Falling back toward Fishersville. He asks that you hurry the re-enforcements promptly. I fear Staunton will go.

E. G. LEE,
Col.

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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 37, Serial No. 70, Pages 151, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.