Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports to Army of the Potomac quartermaster Rufus Ingalls after the battle of Gettysburg on the destroyed state of the Cumberland Valley Railroad 6 miles from Chambersburg.

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Gen. Ingalls,
Chief Quartermaster, Army of the Potomac:

July 7, 1863.

The Cumberland Valley Railroad is so badly destroyed from 6 miles this side of Chambersburg that I shall not be able to throw supplies below that point.

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