Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports from Chambersburg to General George G. Meade in July, 1863, on the aftermath of the Gettysburg campaign. Couch reports on the numbers of troops he has in Chambersburg and the state of the roads and railroads in the area.

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Copy received, War Department, 7.25 p. m.
Maj.-Gen. Meade,
Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac:

Chambersburg,

July 13, 1863.

The Second Division of my forces, about 9,000 men, eight guns, is here. Wholly unable to move it upon Leitersburg, on account of want of transportation for supplies. It may be twenty-four or forty-eight hours before it can go forward. The railroad cannot be repaired to this place in at least five days. The pike to Greencastle is badly cut up. Information that the enemy have a pontoon bridge at Williamsport is not wholly reliable.

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