Summary:
General Robert E. Lee reports to Secretary of War James Seddon on General Jubal Early's September, 1864, actions in the Shenandoah Valley. Lee reports to Seddon that Early drove Union cavalry through Staunton and entered the town.

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Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON.

September 29, 1864.

Gen. Early reports that after driving the enemy's cavalry from his front near Port Republic he moved to Waynesborough and drove two divisions of cavalry from that place. This last force retreated through Staunton, and a portion of our cavalry entered that place to-day. No enemy south of Staunton. His main force is about Harrisonburg.

R. E. LEE.

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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 43, Serial No. 90, Pages 552, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.