Summary:
Confederate Colonel Michael G. Harman, commanding at Staunton, writes Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin in October, 1861, concerning orders for a regiment in the town.

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Hon. J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War:

STAUNTON,

October 21, 1861.

DEAR SIR:

Inclosed is an urgent letter from Gen. Jackson, and I have done all I could to have the Fifty-eighth to move in accordance with his wishes, but am informed you have allowed them to remain for a short time. If it cannot move, I must ask you to send another regiment up with the least possible delay, to take position on the Hardy line.

With great respect, your obedient servant,

M. G. HARMAN,
Lieut.-Col., 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 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 912, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.