Summary:
In mid-June, 1862, Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson's Valley campaign drew to a close. In this dispatch to Cavalry Colonel Thomas Munford, Jackson issues orders, and inquires if certain arms had been sent to Staunton.

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Col. T. T. MUNFFORD,
Cmdg. Cavalry, Valley District:

NEAR WEYER'S CAVE,

June 17, 1862.

COL.:

The arms you spoke of sending have not yet been received. Did you send them here or to Staunton? It is important that you picket from the Blue Ridge to the Shennandoah Mountain or to the mountain west of Harrisonburg.

Until further orders send your dispatches to Brig. Gen. C. S. Winder, near Weyer's Cave.

Do all you can to cut off communication across the lines between us and the enemy. Also let there be as little communication as practicable between your command and that of our infantry. Let your couriers be men whom you can trust, and caution them against carrying news forward, as it may thereby reach the enemy.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. J. JACKSON,
Maj.-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 12, Serial No. 18, Pages 914, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.