Summary:
Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper writes Colonel Michael Harman, commanding at Staunton, with December, 1861, orders for troop movements.

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Col. M. G. HARMAN, Staunton, Va.:

RICHMOND,

December 2, 1861.

Send to their destination without delay, by telegraph or express, the following to Gen. Donelson and Col. Starke, at Lewisburg:

Retire with your respective commands to the nearest point on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and proceed thence to Bowling Green, Ky., and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston.

S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector 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 976, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.