Summary:
Union Military Superintendent W. W. Wright writes to Assistant Secretary of War P. H. Watson to discuss the state of the railroads during Jeb Stuart's raid into Pennsylvania and Maryland. Wright mentions railroad property destroyed at Chambersburg.

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P. H. WATSON, Esq.,
Assistant Secretary of War:

HARRISBURG, PA.,

October 13, 1862.

The track of the Cumberland Valley Railroad was not injured by the rebels. Only the railroad buildings and some rolling stock at Chambersburg were destroyed. The trains are running thought to Hagerstown now, and ammunition and other supplies can be forwarded without delay.

W. W. WRIGHT,
Military Superintendent.

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