Summary:
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge writes General John Echols on the possibility of a May, 1864, Union advance on Staunton.

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Brig.-Gen. ECHOLS,
Cmdg., &c.:

Dublin,

May 2, 1864.

GEN.:

I have this moment received a letter from Gen. R. E. Lee, expressing the opinion that Averell is on his old ground near New Creek, and that while we are threatened from the Kanawha a general movement may be intended on Staunton. Can't you send some picked men to penetrate the country at all hazards and solve the question whether it is near railroad or on Kanawha, and what their forces are?

Yours, truly, in haste,

JNO. C. BRECKINRIDGE,
Maj.-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 709, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.