Summary:
General Grant writes Union General in Chief Henry Halleck to announce the meeting
of Generals Crook and Averell at Staunton in June, 1864.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:
June 11, 1864. (Received 11 a. m. 12th.)
Richmond papers of this morning announce the junction of Crook and Averell with Hunter, at Staunton, on the 8th instant. A portion of their forces are on the Greenville and Middlebrook road. Five hundred cavalry made a demonstration on Waynesborough, and were repulsed by Imboden; on the 9th advanced again, but were driven back, burning up the railroad as they retired.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieut.-Gen.
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 624, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.