Summary:
Confederate General William Loring reports to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper in January, 1862, on intelligence received from Staunton quartermaster Michael Harman.

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Adjutant-Gen. COOPER.

January 6, 1862.

SIR:

I have the honor to inclose a letter received from Gen. Johnson, commanding the army on the Alleghany, and also one from Col. Harman, at Staunton, informing me that the enemy were moving against Alleghany. I think re-enforcements ought to be sent him, but it will be impossible for me to do so from this portion of the army, now before the town of Hancock, too great a distance from his position, and he will have to be re-enforced from elsewhere.

I am, 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 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 498, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.