Summary:
Charles A. Dana writes the Union Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, to report information gathered from a deserter. Dana reports that Confederate General Richard Ewell is in Maryland, and that he left much of his supplies and baggage in Staunton.

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SECRETARY OF WAR,
Washington, D. C.:

CITY POINT, VA.,

July 4, 1864

A deserter from the Sixty-first Virginia, who came into Hancock's lines this morning from the extreme right of the rebel army, says it was reported in their camp that Ewell had gone into Maryland with his own corps and the other forces lately operating in the Valley. He took only hard bread in his wagons and left all baggage at Staunton. The same deserter reports that the rations of Lee's army have been reduced to one-quarter of a pound of meat, whilst the ration of sugar and coffee has ceased to be regularly issued.

C. A. DANA.

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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. 71, Pages 33, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.