Summary:
General Grant forwards General Halleck a September, 1864, newspaper article
announcing the entrance of Union cavalry into Staunton, and their burning of
railroad tracks to that town.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
CITY POINT, VA.,
September 28, 1864.
The Richmond Whig of this morning contains the following:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, September 28, 1864.
The fight near Port Republic on Monday
was an engagement between our cavalry and that of the enemy. They came over the
river, and were driven back three miles by our cavalry to and across the river.
The enemy's cavalry entered Staunton about 8 p. m. on Monday. A force appeared
at Waynesborough about 9 o'clock this morning, and then went back about one mile
from two. No damage has been done up to 4 p. m. The smoke seen indicates that
they are burning the railroad track between Christian's Creek and Staunton.
There has been no serious fighting up to 4 o'clock this evening.
This dispatch should probably have been dated the 27th, but I give it as given in the Richmond paper.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieut.-Gen.
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 196, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
