Summary:
Confederate General John C. Vaughn writes General John C. Breckinridge on May, 1864, Union movements in the Shenandoah Valley. Vaughn reports that Union Generals Crook and Averell linked up at Staunton.

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Maj.-Gen. BRECKINRIDGE:

ROCKFISH GAP, VA.,

June 8, 1864

The enemy advancing, and are one mile from Waynesborough. I have not over 2,500 muskets. I wish you to come soon. Gen. Wharton telegraphs he has forty rounds of ammunition. Send forward as much ammunition as your division will need. I have only a tolerable supply for my force. My commissaries (?) is limited. Crook, Averell, and Hunter have, I think, united their forces at Staunton. They have twenty-three regiments of infantry, and ten to twelve regiments of cavalry, and forty pieces of artillery. Gen. Wharton requires ammunition, .58 caliber. I have sixteen pieces of artillery, but short supply of ammunition. I will hold this position as long as possible, but it is liable to being flanked. I wish you would come immediately, if you have to come on an engine. McCausland and Jackson, I fear, are cut off.

J. C. VAUGHN.

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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 755, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.