Summary:
Union Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas reports to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on Confederate troop movements in Pennsylvania in this July 2, 1863, dispatch. He reports that confederate troops moved rapidly through Chambersburg and that Lee has his headquarters near there.

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Received 9.20 a. m.
E. M. Stanton,
Secretary of War:

Harrisburg, Pa.,

July 2, 1863.

Everything quiet at the front. Capt. Boyd, supposed to be at Shippensburg, who commands some cavalry, reports the rebels evacuated Chambersburg the night of July 1, at 12 o'clock, going in the direction of Greenwood and Fayetteville. The rear guard of the rebels passed through Shippensburg rapidly, not stopping. Lee, whose headquarters were near Chambersburg yesterday, is evidently massing his troops in that region, to encounter Meade. Heavy firing heard all day at Carlisle from the direction of Gettysburg. Railroad communication open from here to within 1 1/2 miles of Carlisle.

L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-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 492-493, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.