Summary:
Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper orders Major H. L. Clay at Lynchburg to send armed troops on to Staunton in July, 1861.

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Maj. H. L. CLAY,
Lynchburg, Va.:

RICHMOND,

July 22, 1861.

Col. T. W. Thomas' Georgia regiment passed Wytheville this morning for Lynchburg. Send it to Manassas. Keep the sixty men of A. Rust's Arkansas regiment until they are armed, and send them to Staunton to join the regiment.

S. COOPER,
Adjutant-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 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 189, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.