Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant E. D. Townsend writes Captain Du Barry, stationed at Chambersburg, in June, 1861. Townsend asks him to inform General Robert Patterson that no more troops will be sent to Chambersburg.

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Capt. B. DU BARRY, U. S. A., Chambersburg, Pa.:

WASHINGTON,

June 15, 1861.

It is said you are making arrangements to send all regiments arriving at Harrisburg to Chambersburg. Gen. Scott says the Third Michigan Regiment and all others are now to be forwarded to this city. Gen. Patterson will need no more troops.

Acknowledge this, and send it to Gen. Patterson.

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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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 2, Serial No. 2, Pages 690, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.