Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant S. M. Barton forwards Colonel William B. Taliaferro orders from Staunton in December, 1861.

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HDQRS. ARMY OF THE NORTHWEST,

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

Staunton, Va.,

December 5, 1861.

COL.:

The general commanding directs me to inform you that he sent you to-day the following telegram, viz:
CONFIDENTIAL. HDQRS. NORTHWEST ARMY,
Staunton, December 5.

Col. W. B. TALIAFERRO, commanding brigade, will proceed from Strasburg to Winchester with his command.
W. W. LORING.

It is somewhat doubtful whether it reached you; at all events, carry out its instructions.

I am, sir, very respectfully,

S. M. BARTON,
Acting 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 405-406, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.