Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: F. SIGEL, Maj.-Gen.
June 13, 1864. (Received 11.50 a. m.)

Summary:
Union General Franz Sigel writes the U. S. Adjutant General to report that Confederates under John C. Breckinridge are on the way to Staunton in June, 1864.


ADJUTANT-Gen. U. S. ARMY:

MARTINSBURG, VA.,

June 13, 1864.
(Received 11.50 a. m.)

Reliable information just received that Breckinridge's division, about 7,000 strong, passed Gordonsville for Staunton on last Wednesday. It is also reported, but this is not fully reliable, that Pickett's division had passed Gordonsville the day previous, on Tuesday.

F. SIGEL,
Maj.-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 634, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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