Summary:
Union Chief of Staff Henry Halleck writes Colonel Bowrs with information on December, 1864, Confederate troop positions. Halleck reports that Confederate General Jubal Early remains stationed in Staunton, VA.

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Lieut. Col. T. S. BOWRS,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen., City Point, Va.:

Washington,

December 30, 1864.

Our scouts visited the old man last night, and returned this morning with report that re-enforcements (supposed to be part of one division and a brigade from another) were sent from Richmond to Hood on Wednesday last. Early remains at Staunton, with no change in his numbers.

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

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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 42, Serial No. 89, Pages 1101, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.