Summary:
Union General Robert Schenck writes General Darius Couch concerning a wagon train destined for Chambersburg. Schenck fears the train was lost in the confusion accompanying the Confederate advance on the town.

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

Baltimore,

June 16, 1863

A part of a battery at Martinsburg, in the retreat from that place Sunday night, was cut off, and is reported to have taken the Williamsport road, and followed on after the wagon trains and some cavalry which were sent, via Greencastle, to Chambersburg. I mention this that you may look out for those field guns and take possession of them, and also as it may, perhaps, account for the enemy's column supposed to have been seen yesterday morning approaching Chambersburg. I directed that the trains should be turned over to the quartermaster at Chambersburg. Can you ascertain for me what has become of them?

ROBT. C. SCHENCK,
Maj.-Gen., Comdg.

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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 159-160, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.