Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, notifies General in Chief Henry Halleck that he has sent troops to Sharpsburg, but not Harper's Ferry in this October, 1863, dispatch.

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Received 11 p. m.
Maj. Gen. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

October 15, 1863.

I have ordered Col. Boyd, with eight companies of cavalry, to Sharpsburg. No artillery has been ordered to Harper's Ferry. Three batteries could be sent.

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