Summary:
Union Major J. S. Schultze writes from Chambersburg to General William F. Smith
in July, 1863, with orders to send troops to Reading.
Brig.-Gen. Smith:
Chambersburg,
July 29, 1863.
Send two regiments and one battery at once to report at camp of instruction, Reading, Pa. I will have transportation ready for them when they arrive here. Telegraph me when they leave Hagerstown.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Maj., and 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 780, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.