Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Charles Stringfellow writes General John C. Breckinridge, commanding at Staunton, regarding May, 1864, troop movements in West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.

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Maj. Gen. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE,
Cmdg., &c., Staunton, Va.:

SALEM, VA.,

May 13, 1864.

The enemy have moved to Newport from Black Spring, their ultimate object, I think, undeveloped. They may return on crossing Salt Pond--turn off toward Staunton. Our troops are moving back to Christiansburg. I am organizing the reserves here; they will be sent to New Castle. Nothing from Jones or Morgan. The difficulties and dangers attending an advance to and cross beyond New River will suggest themselves. Col. McCausland has not informed me of his plans. I am ordered to remain here to-day and try to bring something like order from this state of confusion. I have not been advised with, and deem it presumptuous to offer my suggestions. The result has proved that some of them might have been followed with advantage.

CHAS. S. STRINGFELLOW,
Assistant Adjutant-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 734, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.