Summary:
Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes General Lee concerning a July, 1864, telegram from Staunton containing intelligence from Baltimore. The telegram, sent by Marshal Kane, reports that transport steamboats at Baltimore were ordered to Fort Monroe, indicating a possible Union advance.

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Gen. R. E. LEE,
Petersburg, Va.:

RICHMOND, VA.,

July 15, 1864.

Marshal Kane telegraphs from Staunton to-day, upon the authority of a gentleman who left Baltimore on the 8th instant, that all the steamboats suitable for transports from Baltimore to Portland had been chartered or pressed into service, with orders to report at Fortress Monroe.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

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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 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 1032-1033, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.