Summary:
Assistant Adjutant Robert Chilton writes to Robert E. Lee at Staunton in September, 1861, to give approval of his operations and notify him that medical officers are on the way.

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

RICHMOND,

September 7, 1861.

GEN.:

Your several communications reporting affairs connected with your command have been submitted to the Secretary of War, who desires that an expression of his approval should be made to you. Medical officers recommended have been appointed and sent forward.

Your obedient servant,

R. H. CHILTON,
Assistant 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 278, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.