Summary:
Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin notifies General Joseph E. Johnston that he can expect troops from Staunton in November, 1861.

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Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, Centreville:

RICHMOND,

November 13, 1861.

The road to Manassas is so encumbered with transportation of supplies that in order to prevent further delay I am compelled to order up to your army three of four regiments by way of Fredericksburg. Please send orders to them there. I have ordered two regiments from Staunton to your re-enforcement, and they will leave Staunton to-morrow or day after. Gen. Jackson is urging me to send him an engineer, and I have not one at my command. Have you one that you can possibly spare him?

J. P. BENJAMIN,
Acting Secretary of War.

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