Summary:
Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton writes General Grant informing him of May, 1864, troop locations in the Shenandoah Valley. Stanton reports that Confederates under General John C. Breckinridge are at Staunton.

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Lieut.-Gen. GRANT,
Hdqrs. in the Field:

Washington, D. C.,

May 14, 1864

Sigel is at Woodstock; report Breckinridge at Staunton on the 10th of May, and that a portion of his force was in Sigel's front. Cook had not been heard from since the 6th of this month, and was then at Princeton.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

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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 453, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.