Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton that Confederate infantry is massing on the Pennsylvania border in June, 1863. He includes estimates of troop strengths from Chambersburg scouts.

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Received 3.05 p. m.
Hon. Secretary of War:

Harrisburg,

June 21, 1863.

One thousand rebel cavalry in the vicinity of Waynesborough. Milroy's scouts report 40,000 men at Hagerstown; eighteen pieces of artillery. Chambersburg scouts report 30,000 men at the same place, with sixteen pieces. There is no doubt a force of infantry is on our border.

D. N. COUCH.

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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 253, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.