Summary:
In this June, 1863, dispatch, Pennsylvania governor Andrew Curtin writes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to inform him that dispatches arriving from Chambersburg state that contraband slaves have reported the advance of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in preparation for the Gettysburg campaign.

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Hon. E. M. Stanton:

Harrisburg,

June 14, 1863

The operators at Chambersburg and Hagerstown say contrabands who now are coming in say rebels were coming into Martinsburg as they left at 12 o'clock to-day. From many who are coming--all tell nearly same tale. Line down between Winchester and Martinsburg about 11 o'clock this morning. Another dispatch says some contrabands arrived report McReynolds to have been driven by a large force from Berryville to Bunker Hill and that public stores have been removed from Martinsburg.

A. G. CURTIN.

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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. 45, Pages 112, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.