Telegrams from General Lee's headquarters in September, 1864.
Telegram received.
Endeavor to ascertain nature of reported movement of the enemy, as also their strength, and of what composed.
W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant-General.
Twenty-six hundred muskets have been sent to you, and orders have been issued for one thousand to be sent from Salisbury.
A deserter reports arrival here of Eighth corps under General Lew Wallace. General Wallace is said to be here.
Is report correct?
W. B. Swittell, Company E, Fourth North Carolina regiment infantry, is presumed to be with his command in Early's corps in the Valley.
Nothing is known of his case here.