Summary:
Union General Darius Couch writes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in June, 1863, with the numbers of Confederate infantry, cavalry, and artillery that passed through Chambersburg.

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Hon. Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.:

June 25, 1863

Ten thousand infantry, 700 cavalry, and twenty-four pieces of artillery passed through Chambersburg yesterday. Two thousand infantry, with cavalry, were at Shippensburg this morning.

The above reliable and true. Have a general order, published in Chambersburg by Ewell, 22d instant, relative to provost-marshal, &c.

Reports say that Ewell, with 20,000 men and forty to sixty pieces of artillery, is between Hagerstown and Shippensburg.

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