Summary:
Confederate General John Imboden writes Adjutant General Samuel Cooper to request guns and horses from Staunton to help him stop a May, 1864, Union advance.

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Gen. S. COOPER:

NEW MARKET,

May 26, 1864

Signal corps reported Sigel advancing in force from Strasburg at 1 p. m., and at 6 p. m. his column was at Maurertown, advancing. Citizens report that he has issued eight days' rations. He has a pontoon train along. I have a reserve battery at Staunton ready for the field, except horses. Capt. Turk, quartermaster there, refuses even to lend me horses for a few days, unless you order it. It is important for me to have this additional battery. The horses are in the stables at Staunton. Can I have them a few days? Am preparing for the best fight my means afford, and will keep you advised.

J. D. IMBODEN,
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 748, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.