Summary:
Confederate General William Loring writes Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin in December, 1861, to notify him that he has taken command at Staunton, and ordered troops to move.

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

STAUNTON,

December 1, 1861.

I have come to Staunton with the view of carrying out the plans proposed in my communication to you. I have already given every order necessary to do so. Shall I proposed? Four regiments from the Monterey line have been ordered by Gen. Cooper to Mannassas. I have directed two other regiments to come here from Millborough. Is it your intention to detach all those regiments from his command? I thought preparatory to the movement I would order them here.

W. W. LORING,
Brig.-Gen., 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 975, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.