Summary:
Union General George B. McClellan writes Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin
concerning movements to meet Jeb Stuart's October, 1862, raid into Pennsylvania
and Maryland. McClellan mentions that infantry and artillery are on their way to
Chambersburg.
Gov. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Harrisburg:
October 11, 1862
Your dispatch of 5.30 p. m. received, I have ordered a brigade (one of Crook's) from Hancock to McConnellsburg, to remain there until the rebels are disposed of. Our cavalry will be after them to-night. A brigade of infantry and battery have gone from Hagerstown to Chambersburg.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Maj.-Gen.
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 72, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.