Summary:
In this May, 1864, dispatch, Union Assistant Adjutant D. C. Wager orders General Franz Sigel to attack Staunton and destroy the railroad there in order to disrupt Lee's flow of supplies.

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Maj.-Gen. SIGEL, Strasburg, Va.:

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

May 17, 1864

Lieut.-Gen. Grant expects that you will go up the Shenandoah Valley to Staunton and destroy the railroad there, so as to prevent Gen. Lee's drawing supplies from there.

D. C. WAGER,
Capt. and Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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