Summary:
Union General William Averell's Assistant Adjutant Will Rumsey issues orders from occupied Staunton reorganizing regiments and reassigning commanders in June, 1864.

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Staunton,

June 10, 1864.

I. Brig.-Gen. Duffie having been transferred to the First Cavalry Division, the following organization of brigades will take place forthwith:

First Brigade, Col. Schoonmaker; Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Eighth Ohio Cavalry.

Second Brigade, Col. J. H. Oley; Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, Thirty-fourth Ohio Mounted Infantry, detachments Fifth and Third West Virginia Cavalry.

II. The following officers are announced as assigned to staff duties at these headquarters: Capt. H. N. Harrison, aide-de-camp; Capt. J. A. Crawford, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, provost-marshal; Lieut. F. A. Austin, Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Mounted Infantry, acting aide-de-camp. They will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

III. The foraging parties in this division will report forthwith, for instructions, to Lieut. Col. A. Scott, Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, and will be under his orders. Col. Scott will have control allowed by unauthorized persons, and that all stragglers are arrested and sent for punishment to their brigade commanders.

IV. The brigade commanders will direct each regiment to send one good wagon to Capt. Brown, assistant quartermaster, for transportation of ammunition.

By command of Brig. Gen. W. W. Averell:

WILL RUMSEY,
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 619, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.