Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant George Leet sends a scouting report to Colonel T. S. Bowers in September, 1864. Leet informs Bowers of the type and frequency of trains running through Staunton, VA.

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

WASHINGTON,

September 1, 1864.

Scouts just up report as follows, to 30th ultimo: No signed of any movements from the Valley. One passenger train daily between Staunton and Richmond--up in morning and down at night. There freight trains weekly thought to Staunton. No troops seen on railroad but returning convalescents. Trains of Fredericksburg railroad only run to Hanover Junction. Building bridge over North Anna; will be done 15th instant, when trains will be run to Hamilton's Crossing. Gen. Lee reported severely wounded at Waldon railroad fight.

GEORGE K. LEET,
Assistant Adjutant-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 4, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.