Summary:
Union General Robert C. Schenck writes General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, to report on fighting at Winchester in June, 1863. After taking Winchester, Confederate forces under General Richard Ewell, along with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia, invaded Pennsylvania in what became the Gettysburg campaign.

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Maj.-Gen. Couch,
Comdg. Dept. of the Susquehanna, Chambersburg, Pa.:

Baltimore,

June 13, 1863.

Ewell, with Jackson's old division, and in force, has been fighting us since last night at Winchester, and is pressing on to Martinsburg.

I have not the means to check him at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or at the Potomac River. I shall concentrate all I can to hold Maryland Heights.

ROBT. C. SCHENCK,
Maj.-Gen., Comdg.

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