Summary:
Confederate Colonel B. G. Baldwin, under orders from Lee, directs the commanding
officer at Staunton to oversee a transfer of artillery pieces in August,
1864.
COMDG. OFFICER,
Staunton:
August 11, 1864.
Direct Maj. Leyden to send four of the seven Napoleons received by him to Capt. Gregory, Gen. Early's army, at once.
By command of Gen. Lee:
B. G. BALDWIN,
Lieut.-Col. Cmdg., Army of Northern Virginia.
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 995, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.