Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant General Seth Williams writes General Darius Couch,
commanding at Chambersburg, in July, 1863, regarding troop movements in the
aftermath of the Gettysburg campaign.
Received 8.50 a. m.
Gen. D. N. Couch,
Chambersburg:
Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac,
July 15, 1863.
The commanding general directs me to inquire whether you received his dispatch of last evening, and whether any of your troops are moving down this way. Col. McReynolds, commanding First New York Cavalry, has been directed to watch the Potomac from Harper's Ferry to Williamsport. Please acknowledge.
S. WILLIAMS,
Assistant 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 705, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.