Summary:
By mid-June, 1864, the Union advance into the Shenandoah Valley had faltered. In this dispatch, Union Captain E. B. Gere reports to General Stahel that Confederate troops were in the vicinity of Staunton, which had been briefly occupied by the Union.

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Maj.-Gen. STAHEL:

BEVERLY,

June 18, 1864.

The men I sent through with the dispatches traveled night and day, and could not get through. They report that there is a rebel force at Staunton and Lexington, and that Gen. Hunter had gone to Lynchburg. Maj. Hunter is going to make another attempt to get the dispatches through.

E. B. GERE,
Capt.

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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 649, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.