Summary:
Union general Benjamin F. Kelley writes Major Meysenburg with a July, 1864, report that
Confederate troops are on their way to Staunton.
Maj. MEYSENBURG,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen., Martinsburg:
CUMBERLAND,
July 2, 1864
The following telegram just received, which I forward for the information of the
general:
CLARKSBURG, July 2, 1864.
Brig.-Gen. KELLEY:
Refugees just arrived at Beverly report Early's, Breckinridge's, Imboden's, and Jackson's
commands twenty miles from Staunton en route for that place, on Monday last.
N.
WILKINSON,
Col.
B. F. KELLEY,
Brig.-Gen.
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 12, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.