Summary:
Confederate Captain J. W. G. Smith writes from Staunton in December, 1863, to inform General Jubal Early of the state of O'Ferrall's command.

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Gen. J. A. EARLY:

STAUNTON, VA.,

December 19, 1863.

O'Ferrall's men are nearly all captured, and the rest not available. There in no force here sufficient to picket with. I will do the best I can under the circumstances and keep you advised.

J. W. G. SMITH,
Capt. and Provost-Marshal.

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