Summary:
Union Colonel A. Moor writes General Franz Sigel on the Twenty-eighth Ohio's June, 1864, march from Staunton along with prisoners, refugees, contrabands, sick, and wounded.

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Maj. Gen. F. SIGEL,
Martinsburg, W. Va.:

CAMP CARRINGTON,
Near Indianapolis, Ind.,

June 22, 1864.

GEN.:

Your favor of the 15th instant was delivered to me at Grafton by your scout, but it was impossible for me to answer it or comply with your desire to send copy of my report to Gen. Sullivan, being on the cars with my prisoners. This march from Staunton, in charge of prisoners, refugees, contrabands, sick, wounded, and a mixed mass of soldiers, whose term of service had expired, was by far the heaviest task of duty ever heaped upon me and my cut up regiment, but we did our duty to the last day of our arrival at Camp Morton, else two-thirds of the prisoners would have escaped before reaching Webster. Many officers of rank, availing themselves of the protection offered by my escort and guard, promised me every aid on the march, but I was sadly disappointed. Inclosed please find copy of my official report to Gen. Sullivan, relative to the battle of New Market.

A. MOOR,
Col. Twenty-eighth Regt. Ohio Volunteers.

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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 663-664, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.