Summary:
In early June, 1864, Union troops took Staunton, VA. In this dispatch, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge writes Colonel George Crittenden with plans for a possible counter-attack.

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Col. G. B. CRITTENDEN,
Glade Spring, Va.:

LYNCHBURG,

June 8, 1864

I have applied to Richmond for Morgan to report at once to assist in repelling Crook and Hunter. Gen. Bragg answers that you are in temporary command in my department. Morgan should report to me at once. If he is moving toward mouth of Sandy, he might sweep up Kanawha Valley and attack enemy now at Staunton in flank and rear. Telegraph me at Charlottesville.

J. C. BRECKINRIDGE,
Maj.-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 755-756, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.