Summary:
Confederate General William Loring writes from Staunton in December, 1861, with orders for Colonel William B. Taliaferro.

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HDQRS. NORTHWEST ARMY,

Col. W. B. TALIAFERRO,
Cmdg. Brigade:

Staunton, Va.,

December 4, 1861.

COL.:

You will upon receipt of this take your command upon the cars to Strasburg, and there await further orders. I have received instructions from the War Department to this effect.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. W. LORING,
Brig.-Gen., Cmdg., &c.

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