Summary:
In this September, 1862, dispatch, Union General-in-Chief Henry Halleck responds to McClellan's warning about the safety of Chambersburg in the face of Robert E. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania.

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Maj.-Gen. McCLELLAN:

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

September 14, 1862 (Sent 1.30 p. m.)

Yours of 11.15 is just received. Scouts report a large force still on Virginia side of the Potomac, near Leesburg. If so, I fear you are exposing your left flank, and that the enemy can cross in your rear. Can you not ascertain the fact from Sugar Loaf Mountain? Hearing that you had withdrawn all troops from the river below Conrad's Ferry, I directed Gen. Banks to supply their place. I do not understand what you mean by asking me to look out for Chambersburg. I have no troops to send there.

H. W. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief.

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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 19, Serial No. 28, Pages 289, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.