Summary:
General Grant reports to General Halleck on September, 1864, reports that firing had been heard around Staunton, VA. Grant also mentions that many had been evacuating the town.

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Maj.-Gen. HALLECK,
Washington, D. C.:

CITY POINT, VA.,

September 27, 1864--11 a. m. (Received 3 p. m.)

From Richmond papers of yesterday I gather that firing was heard at Staunton on Sunday morning. People were leaving Staunton in great alarm. No troops have passed through Richmond to re-enforce Early. All that have left, so far as can be learned, are two regiments and a city battalion for Lynchburg. I shall make a beak here on the 29th.

U. S. GRANT,
Lieut.-Gen.

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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. 91, Pages 186, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.