Summary:
These Union special orders dated July 8, 1863, send cavalry toward Chambersburg to guard the area, especially the railroads.

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July 8, 1863.

I. Col. John E. Wynkoop will at once take command of the regiment composed of the companies which were assigned "temporarily" to his command by Special Orders, No. 2, section 1, dated July 6, 1863, from these headquarters. He will move without delay to the front, by way of Carlisle, proceeding toward Chambersburg as far as practicable. He will guard with his force the country in that direction, and will protect the railroad going to Scotland.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Stahel:

H. BALDWIN, Jr.,
Maj., and Assistant 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 613, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.