Summary:
In this July 4, 1863, dispatch, Union Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas reports to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on the situation in Pennsylvania. He includes Confederate troop strengths at Chambersburg, gathered by Judge Kimmell who was in the town.

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Received, War Department, 1 p. m.
Hon. E. M. Stanton,
Secretary of War:

Harrisburg, Pa.,

July 4, 1863.

Judge Kimmell, who remained at Chambersburg, came from there yesterday. He states that Lee has concentrated all his force, amounting to not over 75,000, 12,000 of which is cavalry; 200 pieces of artillery of all calibers, 40 siege, 60 Napoleons; the rest different calibers, including rifled guns; wagons, about 3,000. Depot of supplies at the base of the mountains in the Cumberland Valley. There is a belief in the rebel army that Beauregard, with 40,000 men, is in the vicinity of Manassas.

The available force here pushed forward to join Gen. Smith on his march from Carlisle. Col. Pierce, from Bedford County, is at Loudon. We are cheered to hear how splendidly Gen. Meade is doing.

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