Summary:
Union General David Hunter's Assistant Adjutant P. G. Bier issues June, 1864, orders from occupied Staunton concerning the movement of a prisoner train to West Virginia.

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Col. A. MOOR,
Cmdg., &c.:

Staunton, Va.,

June 9, 1864.

COL.:

You will take up your line of march with the prisoners and train to Beverly without delay, taking with you your own regiment and such detachments as may be sent to report to you by Gen.'s Crook and Averell. You will have command of the whole train, and will see that no enlisted men or officers are in the train without proper authority. You will exercise the utmost vigilance that none of the prisoners escape.

All this by command of Maj.-Gen. Hunter;

I have the honor to be, colonel, very respectfully, yours,

P. G. BIER,
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 615, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.