Summary:
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge sends a letter through Staunton to General John Imboden concerning the May, 1864, movement of troops.

---

Brig.-Gen. IMBODEN,
At his Hdqrs.:

Dublin, (Via Staunton.)

May 5, 1864.

Can't make out your dispatch in cipher of this date. I have 4,000 men en route for Jackson Depot to take cars. I start across country to-night. Will reach there Saturday morning. Telegraph me to that point the condition of affairs.

JNO. C. BRECKINRIDGE,
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 717, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.