Summary:
In this January, 1864, dispatch, General Darius Couch, commanding the department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, writes Secretary of War Edwin Stanton regarding rumors that a mob planned to prevent the inauguration of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin.

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Received 1.30 p. m.
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

January 16, 1864.

It is reported that a mob will prevent Governor Curtin being inaugurated on the 19th instant. I think not. By invitation of the Legislature committee I shall be present.

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 33, Serial No. 60, Pages 386, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.