Records Related to Augusta County Regiments



From: H. W. HALLECK, Maj.-Gen. and Chief of Staff.
July 3, 1864

Summary:
Union General in Chief Henry Halleck writes Ulysses S. Grant to discuss the July, 1864, situation in the Shenandoah Valley. Halleck mentions that Confederate Generals Early, Breckinridge, and Jackson, along with Mosby's guerrillas, were on the move from Staunton.


Lieut.-Gen. GRANT,
City Point, Va.:

WASHINGTON

July 3, 1864

Gen. Sigel reports that Early, Breckinridge, and Jackson, with Mosby's guerrillas, are said to be moving from Staunton down the Shenandoah Valley. I ordered Gen. Hunter up to the line of the railroad, but he has replied to none of my telegrams, and has made no report of his operations or present condition. Sigel has been ordered to telegraph directly to him, to inform him of the condition of affairs, and to ask for instructions. It is possible that Hunter is marching by Beverly and Moorefield or Romney, which would account for his not answering dispatches. The three principal officers on the line of the road are Sigel, Stahel, and Max Weber. You can, therefore, judge what probability there is of a good defense if the enemy should attack the line in force.

H. W. HALLECK,
Maj.-Gen. and Chief of Staff.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 37, Serial No. 71, Pages 15, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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