Summary:
During the battle of Antietam, Chambersburg played an important role in supplying Union forces. In this letter, General McClellan asks Ordnance Chief James Ripley to send Parrott artillery ammunition through Chambersburg to the front.

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Brig.-Gen. RIPLEY,
Chief of Ordnance:

Via Hagerstown, Md.,

September 17, 1862. (Received 10 p. m.)

If you can possibly do it, force some 20-pounder Parrott ammunition through to-night, via Hagerstown and Chambersburg, to us, near Sharpsburg, Md.

GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,
Maj. Gen., Cmdg.

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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 312, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.