Summary:
Confederate General Jubal Early orders General Bryan Grimes to Staunton to get on the train for Richmond in December, 1864.

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Brig. Gen. BRYAN GRIMES:

December 13, 1864.

GEN.:

You will leave in the morning for Staunton to take the railroad for Richmond. Get everything ready and start about 8 o'clock. Let me see you to-night. Say nothing about where you are going.

Respectfully,

J. A. EARLY,
Lieut.-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 938, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.