Summary:
In this July 3, 1863, dispatch, Union General Darius Couch reports to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on the situation in Pennsylvania during the battle of Gettysburg. Couch reports that Confederates were sending supply trains to Chambersburg and mentions both Union and Confederate cavalry in the area.

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Received 8.20 p. m.
Hon. E. M. Stanton:

Harrisburg, Pa.,

July 3, 1863

Last night the rebels were driving their trains from Cashtown to Chambersburg. Every available musket and cannon is sent to the front. Seventy-nine guns went forward last night. My cavalry were at Fayetteville, near Chambersburg, last night. Imboden is near Chambersburg. Lieut. Oliver B. Knowles and 88 men, Boyd's New York Cavalry, charged 75 rebels, and captured 22 men and 33 horses.

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