Summary:
Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton writes General Sherman to notify him of General David Hunter's June, 1864, victory at the battle of Piedmont, and the subsequent occupation of Staunton. He reports that Confederate forces took to the mountains between Staunton and Charlottesville.

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Maj.-Gen. SHERMAN, Acworth, Ga.:

June 8, 1864

On Sunday Gen. Hunter fought a battle with the rebels at Mount Crawford, sixteen miles from Staunton, and gained a complete victory. The rebel Gen. W. E. Jones was killed on the field. Our forces occupy Staunton. The rebels are in the mountains between Staunton and Charlottesville. Dispatches from Gen. Grant this morning report no movements or change of position on either side. Gen. Crittenden has at his own request been relieved from the Army of the Potomac. Do you want him? Mr. Lincoln was renominated by acclamation in the Baltimore Convention to-day.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

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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 38, Serial No. 75, Pages 433, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.