Summary:
Confederate General Braxton Bragg forwards a June, 1864, dispatch to General John C. Breckinridge detailing fighting near Staunton and Lexington.

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Gen. BRECKINRIDGE:

RICHMOND,

June 11, 1864.

Following dispatch from Lynchburg:
Gen. BRAGG:
I have just received the following dispatch, which I forward:

"HDQRS. VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE,
"June 10, 1864--6 p. m.
"Gen. BRECKINRIDGE:

"I have just left McCausland's camp two miles below Lexington. He has been fighting Averell's cavalry, estimated at 5,000 strong, all day, from one and a half miles this side Staunton to Brownsburg, and his scouts report that Crook entered Fairfield this afternoon with upward of six regiments of infantry and 200 cavalry. If pursued by either column. McCausland will not be able to hold Lexington. The plans of the enemy are developed; they camp to-night at Cedar Grove, nine miles from Lexington, and at Fairfield, twelve miles from Lexington.
"F. H. SMITH,
"Superintendent."
F. T. NICHOLLS,
Brig.-Gen.

BRAXTON BRAGG.

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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 756-757, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.