Summary:
Union General Darius Couch writes to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in June, 1863, to report the approach of Confederate forces toward Union picket lines outside Chambersburg.

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Received 10.50 p. m.
Hon. Secretary of War:

Harrisburg,

June 15, 1863.

The enemy are following my pickets 9 miles south of Chambersburg, and apparently moving north in three columns; one to Chambersburg, one to Gettysburg, and the other in the direction of the coal mines. Infantry reported with them. I shall have but little to resist them, I fear.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-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 27, Serial No. 45, Pages 131, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.