Summary:
Confederate General Fitz Lee writes General Jubal Early, commanding in Staunton, on December, 1863, movements in western Virginia. He also discusses movement of troops from Staunton.

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Maj. Gen. J. A. EARLY,
Staunton:

COLLIERSTOWN,

December 19, 1863

GEN.:

Owing to the telegraphic dispatch received last night from Lynchburg I have determined to move my command across the country to Buchanan and get on Averell's rear. If you can stop up the route by Covington and Callaghan's and the road by Lewisburg can be closed, I think that he will be taken. I take this route so that if he returns to Salem, as the dispatch indicates, and attempts to go south I can still be after him.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

FITZ. LEE,
Maj.-Gen., 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 804, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.