Summary:
Union Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas sends Herman Haupt the post-Gettysburg,
July 10, 1863, distribution of Union forces in Pennsylvania, including the
strengths of units in Chambersburg.
Gen. Hermann Haupt,
Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac:
Harrisburg, Pa.,
July 10, 1863
Sir:
Inform Gen. Meade that the following is the description of our forces, as near as can be ascertained
Gen. Smith, commanding First Division, was yesterday at Waynesborough. He had asked for 100 wagons, which go forward to-morrow. His force, officers and men, two batteries of artillery, 240, with twelve guns; fourteen regiments of infantry, 7,422; aggregate, 7,662.
Gen. Dana, commanding Second Division, to-day at Chambersburg. Two batteries of artillery, 240 men, and eight guns; fifteen regiments of infantry, 10,777; aggregate, 11,007.
Two batteries of artillery, 240 men and twelve guns, and three regiments of infantry, 2,100--aggregate, 2,340--leave here to-morrow. Cavalry near the two divisions, 900.
Col. L. B. Pierce's Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry at Loudon. Artillery, two guns, 11 men; cavalry, 400; infantry, 2,300; aggregate, 2,700.
Col. Hawley, with 100 cavalry, two regiments infantry, 1,200-aggregate, 1,300--from Mount Union, has by this time joined Col. Pierce, making the latter's force 4,000.
Total: Artillery, 731; guns, 30; cavalry, 1,400; infantry, 23,799; aggregate, 25,930. Maj.-Gen. Hall, New York militia, commands the works opposite. Garrison, 1,300. A few additional troops are guarding bridges. Gen. Couch is at Chambersburg.
L. THOMAS,
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 634, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
