Summary:
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge writes from Staunton to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper concerning May, 1864, action in the Shenandoah Valley.

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Gen. S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector Gen.:

STAUNTON,

May 9, 1864.

Dispatch from operator at Harrisonburg states that McNeill struck Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Piedmont, burning bridge and machine-shops, destroying locomotives, and inflicting damages to extent of several millions.

J. 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 725, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.