Summary:
Union General Phil Sheridan reports to General Grant on the September, 1864, situation in the Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan discusses reports that Confederate General W. H. F. Lee's cavalry had left Staunton after a flood.

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Lieut.-Gen. GRANT,
City Point:

NEAR BERRYVILLE, VA.

September 15, 1864.
(Received 16th.)

I have nothing new to report for yesterday or to-day. There is as yet no indication of Early's detaching; and I have report that a small number of pontoon-boats have passed through Winchester to Stephenson's Depot, and that W. H. F. Lee's old brigade of cavalry left Staunton after the flood. These reports were brought by one of our soldiers who escaped from Winchester, and I question their reliability. The enemy are greatly chagrined at the capture of Henagan and the Eighth South Carolina Regiment; we got the entire organization. We are now getting some recruits, but in small numbers. Our increase has been from returned convalescents. It seems impossible to get at the enemy's cavalry, as it is in poor condition and is kept in close on their infantry.

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 89, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.