Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, writes General in Chief Henry Halleck in October, 1863. Couch informs Halleck that he has several regiments of six month men who would probably agree to do duty anywhere ordered.

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Received 6.30 p. m.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

October 14, 1863

I have eleven companies of six-months' infantry between this place and Philadelphia. I think they would go readily where ordered. Ten companies of six-months' cavalry are on the border. About one-third of the infantry and cavalry are away now. The Tenth New Jersey is ordered to Harrisburg from Pottsville.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-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 29, Serial No. 49, Pages 318, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.