Summary:
Union General in Chief Henry Halleck asks General Darius Couch, commanding from Chambersburg, to countermand movement orders for New York State militia troops in this July, 1863, dispatch. The New York troops were in Pennsylvania to help repel The Army of Northern Virginia's invasion during the Gettysburg campaign.

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Maj.-Gen. Couch,
Chambersburg, Pa.:

Washington, D. C.,

July 15, 1863.

Sir:

You will countermand the movement north of all New York regiments, excepting the two ordered from these headquarters.

H. W. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief.

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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 27, Serial No. 44, Pages 921, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.