Summary:
Union General Robert Milroy writes General Darius Couch in June, 1863, with reports of Confederate forces in Chambersburg.

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Maj.-Gen. Couch:

Bloody Run,

June 24, 1863.

Col. Joseph L. Moss, at McConnellsburg, reports the rebels are in large force at Chambersburg, and 500 went out on the Philadelphia road yesterday, and had not returned to-day, and they are advancing on Loudon, and are now within 2 miles of that place. They have also a considerable cavalry force at Mercersburg, and three regiments of infantry advancing there. I have ordered a regiment of infantry, as you directed, but doubt the policy of scattering my little command so widely at this time. The militia at Cove Mountain and vicinity have all run away excepting 90.

R. H. MILROY,
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 297, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.