Summary:
Confederate General William Loring, commanding at Staunton, writes Major R. G. Cole in December, 1861, concerning troop movements.

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Maj. R. G. COLE:

STAUNTON,

December 4, 1861.

Ask weather I can stop the four regiments under Taliaferro now marching to Strasburg. Reply immediately, so that I can do so, as they reach the railroad to-morrow at Mount Jackson.

W. W. LORING.

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