Summary:
Staunton quartermaster Michael G. Harman writes Colonel William B. Taliaferro in November, 1861, with orders from the Adjutant General. Harman offers to help provide provisions for Taliaferro's actions.

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Col. W. B. TALIAFERRO,
Ryan's:

November 28, 1861.

COL.:

I inclose a dispatch to you from Gen. S. Cooper, directing you to march your command to Mount Jackson and take the Manassas Gap Railroad to Manassas. If this letter meets you at Ryan's you can march to Parnassus, eleven miles, to-morrow; next day to ----, twelve miles; Sunday to Big Spring,----miles; Monday two miles below New Market, and Tuesday morning to Mount Jackson, where railroad transportation will be in readiness for you. I suggest these stands for your consideration. Please inform me by express to what point I shall send provisions and what amount.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

M. G. HARMAN,
Lieut.-Col., Cmdg.

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