Summary:
Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper writes General William Loring, stationed at Staunton, to order him to move his command to Winchester in December, 1861.

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Gen. LORING, Staunton, Va.:

RICHMOND,

December 5, 1861.

The exigency requires the arrival or your entire command as rapidly as possible at Winchester.

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