Summary:
This July 3, 1863, dispatch from Union cavalry ranging behind the lines during the battle of Gettysburg reports no Confederate forces at Chambersburg.

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Maj.-Gen. Couch:

Bloody Run,

July 3, 1863.

Your orders will be promptly obeyed. My scouts in from the Potomac. Same high and rising. Scouts report no rebels at Chambersburg. Rebel force at Hancock. Caliber of my muskets, .58. Part of my cavalry at Loudon.

L. B. PIERCE,
Col., 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 507, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.