Summary:
John Baldwin writes the Confederate Secretary of War in October, 1864, to ask for measures to help relieve a food crisis in Rockingham County. Baldwin asks that an answer be telegraphed to Staunton.

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Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR:

HARRISONBURG,

October 12, 1864.

The condition of things in Rockingham County is most deplorable. A food panic threatens. I recommend it of utmost importance to suspend for a time at least the call under Order 77 so far as this county is concerned. The magistrates of the county now assembled here recommended that course. Please answer by telegraph to Staunton. Excuse me for repeating that I regard this matter of extreme importance.

Respectfully,

JOHN B. BALDWIN.

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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 892-893, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.