Summary:
Confederate Quartermaster Abraham C. Myers writes the Secretary of War in July, 1863, to discuss the possibility of mounting men, some from Staunton, for the purpose of going on an expedition to procure horses.

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JULY 4, 1863.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War.

It is absolutely necessary that we should obtain some 8,000 or 10,000 animals to replace those killed and unfit for service from long work. Measures have been taken to get mules from Mexico and Texas. Some have been for months on the borders of the Mississippi River. We cannot depend upon a safe transit.

Officers of this department have been sent with funds in the wake of Gen. Lee's army. Two thousand may be procured in Maryland by purchase. Ten companies of convalescents organized as a regiment and sent on this duty might succeed admirably. About 300 can be mounted at once at Staunton.

A. C. MYERS,
Quartermaster-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 4, Volume 2, Serial No. 128, Pages 616, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.