Summary:
Union General in Chief Henry Halleck writes General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg in October, 1863, to ask if troops could be spared from that command for the defense of Harper's Ferry.

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Maj.-Gen. COUCH,
Chambersburg, Pa.:

Washington,

October 14, 1863

Have you any troops which could re-enforce Harper's Ferry? It is threatened.

H. W. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief.

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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 29, Serial No. 49, Pages 317, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.