Summary:
Union director of military railroads Herman Haupt writes from Chambersburg to Army of the Potomac Quartermaster Rufus Ingalls. Haupt reports that he is moving his repair crews from the Chambersburg area to Alexandria, and comments on Robert E. Lee's withdrawal into Virginia following the Gettysburg campaign of July, 1863.

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Received 10 p. m.
Gen. R. Ingalls, Army of the Potomac:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

July 14, 1863.

The Winchester road cannot be relied upon for any transportation whatever. The rail is strap iron, the supports rotten, and the lightest engines run off the track continually. I am moving my whole force to Alexandria. You cannot catch Lee by following in his rear. The bridges on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad which are not yet burned should be saved, if possible; also on the Manassas Gap Railroad.

H. HAUPT,
Brig.-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 696, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.