Summary:
In early May, 1864, Confederate General John Echols made his way to Staunton with his men. In this dispatch, Echols remarks on the lack of corn in the vicinity. He asks General John C. Breckinridge to send a train filled with supplies for the troops.

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Maj.-Gen. BRECKINRIDGE:

MILLBOROUGH,

May 9, 1864.

I have marched to-day fourteen miles and will get within two or three miles of Goshen to-night, making twenty miles. The men and horses are a good deal broken down. We have not been able to procure a grain of corn, and it can't be had between here and Staunton. Is there no possibility of sending up to-night, or early to-morrow morning, a train to Goshen for the troops, and also some train? Our transportation and artillery horses will be used up unless we get some forage. Please reply at once, and give me the news.

JNO. ECHOLS,
Brig.-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 725-726, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.