Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant General Edward D. Townsend issues these June, 1863,
orders placing General Darius Couch in command of the Department of the
Susquehanna, headquarters at Chambersburg.
Governor Tod, Columbus, Ohio.
Gen. Schenck,
Baltimore.
Gen. Burnside, Cincinnati.
Governor Peirpoint,
Wheeling, W. Va.
War Department,
June 10, 1863.
The general orders telegraphed this morning should read thus:
I. The Department of the Monongahela will embrace that portion of the State of Pennsylvania west of Johnstown and the Laurel Hill range of mountains, and the counties of Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio, in the State of West Virginia, and the counties of Columbiana, Jefferson, and Belmont, in the State of Ohio. Maj. Gen. William T. H. Brooks is assigned to the command of this Department, headquarters at Pittsburgh.
II. The Department of the Susquehanna will embrace that portion of the State of Pennsylvania east of Johnstown and the Laurel Hill range of mountains. Maj.-Gen. Couch is assigned to the command of this department, headquarters at Chambersburg.
By order of the Secretary of War
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
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 55, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.