Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: D. N. COUCH, Maj.-Gen.
July 8, 1863

Summary:
Union General Darius Couch writes General Gouverneur K. Warren in July, 1863, to announce that his headquarters will soon be at Chambersburg, as well as to report his progress in sending troops after Robert E. Lee's army retreating from Gettysburg.


Gen. G. K. Warren:

Harrisburg,

July 8, 1863

My headquarters will probably be at Chambersburg to-morrow. I am putting troops in the Valley as fast as railroad can do it, having had some ten regiments organized and equipped in last ten days. I will endeavor to effect a junction with Smith and your army.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-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 611, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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