Summary:
Union General Benjamin F. Kelley writes Colonel T. M. Harris to say that General
Hunter reportedly took Staunton in June, 1864.
Col. T. M. HARRIS,
Beverly:
CUMBERLAND,
June 9, 1864.
I fear will not be able to send you cavalry till the Sixth are mounted. It is reported in rebel papers from Richmond that Gen. Hunter had a battle at Mount Crawford; the rebel Jones was killed. Hunter was reported in Staunton.
B. F. KELLEY.
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 617, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.