| Headquarters Forces at Staunton, Va. |
| November 30, 1861
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| Col. W. B. Taliaferro
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| Commanding Brigade |
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| Colonel, |
| Inclosed is a copy of dispatch received
to-day from General Cooper, directing you to march as first ordered
via Harrisonburg to Mount Jackson. The commissary says he sent you
five days' rations for 2,200 men, which you will take with you, and
will render it unnecessary for me to send any further supplies. I
also inclose you a copy of dispatch from superintendent of Manassas
Railroad Company, saying he will have sixty cars ready for you on
Tuesday. I have telegraphed him to have seventy-five cars ready for
you on Thursday morning next. All, I hope, will work, and as you can
dispense with teams discharge the impressed ones. |
| Yours, very respectfully, |
| M. G. Harman |
| Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding |
| P. S. -- I will forward any men now here belonging to
your command to Harrisonburg to meet you. |
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