Summary:
Michael Harman writes from Staunton to Robert E. Lee in July, 1861, to describe roads and routes for armies in western Virginia.

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Gen. R. E. LEE:

STAUNTON,

July 21, 1861.

The distance by Millborough to Huntersville to Huttonsville is thirty-one miles longer than by turnpike to go from Monterey to Huttonsville. By Huntersville is thirty-four miles out of the way, over a bad road. The defense of Cheat Mountain will not close the passage of the enemy to Hunttonsville. The maps are unreliable. You can only depend on report of engineers after examination.

M. G. HARMAN.

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