Summary:
Union Major and Assistant Adjutant for the Department of the Susquehanna John
Schultze writes to General Julius Stahel in April, 1864, to announce the
departure of a cavalry regiment from Chambersburg.
Received 9.10 p. m.
Maj. Gen. JULIUS STAHEL,
Cumberland:
CHAMBERSBURG,
April 2, 1864.
The Twentieth Regt. Pennsylvania Cavalry left Chambersburg at 4 p. m., 1st instant, en route for Charleston. They were neither mounted, except one squadron, nor armed, except with sabers. Requisitions for horses and ordnance stores required for the regiment are in the hands of Brig.-Gen. Wilson and Gen. Ramsay.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch.
Respectfully,
JOHN S. SCHULTZE,
Maj. and Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
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 793, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.