Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Maj.-Gen.
October 11, 1862

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.


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