Summary:
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge writes from Staunton to Adjutant General
Samuel Cooper concerning May, 1864, Union movements in the Shenandoah
Valley.
Gen. S. COOPER:
STAUNTON,
May 9, 1864.
Enemy has sent 1,300 cavalry from Winchester after McNeill. Imboden, with part of his force, started this morning to thwart them, and he may reach Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. No further news this morning from Sigel.
JOHN 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 725, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.