Summary:
Robert E. Lee writes General John Floyd in August, 1861, to discuss regiments
expected to arrive in Staunton.
HDQRS.,
Gen. JOHN B. FLOYD,
Cmdg. Army of Kanawha, Camp
Gauley, west of Lewisburg, Va.:
Valley Mountain,
August 27, 1861.
GEN.:
Since my letter of yesterday I have heard that the Thirtieth Georgia Regt. was expected at Staunton, and have directed that it be ordered to join your command. This, with the Fourteen Regt. North Carolina Volunteers, which you were advised was on its way to Lewisburg, will give you two well-appointed regiments.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE,
Gen., Cmdg.
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 256, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
