Summary:
In this October, 1863, dispatch, Union General in Chief Henry Halleck writes General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg. Halleck countermands orders that Couch send troops to Harper's Ferry. Instead he asks that they be sent toward the Potomac, where Confederates had been sighted.

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

Washington,

October 16, 1863

It is reported that the enemy has appeared on the Potomac near Clear Spring or Cherry Run. I think your troops should act in that direction, instead of going to Harper's Ferry at present.

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