Summary:
Confederate Colonel Michael Harman, commanding at Staunton, writes Adjutant General Samuel Cooper in November, 1861, concerning the movement of troops to Buffalo Gap, and the difficulty of controlling the men in town.

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Gen. S. COOPER:

STAUNTON,

November 28, 1861.

The four regiments will be at Buffalo Gap to-morrow. It is almost impossible to control the men in the town. I suggest that you give Col. Taliaferro an order to camp at Buffalo Gap, and have transportation ready at that point on the railroad for them to go to Manassas.

M. G. HARMAN.

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