Summary:
Charles A. Dana writes General Grant with news gathered in the Valley in July, 1864. Dana reports trains running from Richmond to Staunton, and Confederate efforts to transport hay.

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Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT,
City Point, Va.:

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

July 23, 1864

A man who left Gordonsville on the 12th instant arrived here yesterday. He is intelligent and seems honest. He reports that when he left the cars were running through from Richmond to Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Staunton, and Lynchburg. The rebels were building a bridge over the Rapidan to get hay from Culpeper.

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 422, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.