Summary:
In October, 1862, Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart invaded Pennsylvania. In this dispatch, Pennsylvania governor Andrew Curtin informs Secretary of War Edwin Stanton of the advance. He mentions the capture of Mercersburg and the destruction of telegraph wires, and requests that troops be sent to Chambersburg to oppose the Confederates.

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Hon. E. M. STANTON:

HARRISBURG, PA.,

October 10, 1862.

I am just informed that a body of rebel cavalry have occupied Mercersburg, said to be 3,000 strong. They have cut the telegraph wires, and are thought to be advancing on Chambersburg. The Anderson Cavalry are at Carlisle, and we have 2,500 cavalry unarmed, none of them mounted. Will you not order Anderson Cavalry up to Chambersburg, and send arms for them here? The rebels have taken all property they could move, but have not taken life.

A. G. CURTIN.

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