Summary:
Union Quartermaster Colonel Rufus Ingalls discusses re-routing supplies while Confederate cavalry occupied Chambersburg in October, 1862.

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Col. C. G. SAWTELLE, Quartermaster:

October 11, 1862.

Have just received your package, which shows us all that you have done all in your power to supply the clothing. If it has not actually left Washington, I think it had better not go on the Hagerstown road until we know better what the rebels are doing at Chambersburg. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cars should not be diverted now; but why was not the clothing sent? Capt. Pitkin has not received his supplies yet. He has no stationery, &c. Where is the trouble?

RUFUS INGALLS,
Lieut.-Col., Aide-de-Camp, and Chief Quartermaster.

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