Summary:
Confederate Assistant Adjutant Robert Chilton writes Robert E. Lee, Commanding at Staunton, in August, 1861, to notify him that supplies are being sent.

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Gen. R. E. LEE, Staunton, Va.:

RICHMOND,

August 26, 1861.

GEN.:

The Secretary of War directs that you be informed that your requisitions for clothing are being filled and the articles forwarded. He also wishes you to be informed that Col. McDonald had previously to your orders to him been directed to proceed with his regiment to Hampshire County, to carry out his original instructions in that quarter, which were highly important.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. H. CHILTON,
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 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 808, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.