Summary:
In this September, 1862, dispatch, Assistant Secretary of War P. H. Watson notifies General McClellan that his request for ammunition through Chambersburg is being filled.

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Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN,
Comdg. Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Md.:

Washington City, D. C.,

September 18, 1862

Your telegram to Gen. Ripley, saying, "If you can possibly do it, force some 20-pounder Parrott ammunition through to-night, via Hagerstown and Chambersburg, to us, near Sharpsburg, Md.," was received between 10 and 11 o'clock last night, and 2,500 rounds of this ammunition was ordered, with the least practicable delay, from the Arsenal, and arrangements made to run it through on all the roads at express passenger speed. It is now at or near Harrisburg, Pa., and will reach Hagerstown by noon to-day.

P. H. WATSON,
Assistant Secretary of War.

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