Summary:
Confederate General Samuel Cooper writes Major H. L. Clay in August, 1861, to discuss regiments at Richmond and orders that some be forwarded to Staunton.

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Maj. H. L. CLAY, Lynchburg:

RICHMOND,

August 1, 1861.

Please give me by telegraph the names of the colonels of the several Tennessee regiments that have arrived at Lynchburg since July 20, and the designation of each regiment, stating which have been sent forward to Staunton and which remaining at Lynchburg. No more than five in all are to take the Staunton route; the others, if any, will be held at Lynchburg until further orders.

S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector 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 206, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.