Summary:
General Phil Sheridan writes General Grant to inform him of December, 1864, Confederate troop movements in the Shenandoah Valley. He reports that Early's men moved to Staunton, possibly to go into winter quarters there.

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Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT,
City Point, VA.:

KERNSTOWN, VA.,

December 12, 1864

The reports up to this evening are as follows: Early moved a portion or all his infantry back toward Staunton, commencing the movement last Friday. The soldiers said they were going into winter quarters there. I cannot get any information of Gordon's and Pegram's division other than the report of one deserter. All others state that Pegram did not move previous to last Friday, and know nothing of the movements of Gordon's division. I have been unable to do anything toward determining absolutely these movements on account of the snow-storm and the intensely cold weather now prevailing here.

P. H. SHERIDAN,
Maj.-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 778, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.