Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, writes to Major Vincent in this May, 1864, dispatch to announce the departure of a cavalry regiment from Chambersburg. He also mentions that the 187th Pennsylvania is scattered throughout the department doing various duties including recruiting and policing the anthracite coal region.

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Maj. VINCENT:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

May 15, 1864.

The Twenty-first Regt. Pennsylvania Cavalry will leave Chambersburg for Washington at 6 a. m. 16th instant. The One hundred and eighty-seventh Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers is scattered throughout the department, on duty at the different draft rendezvous and district provost-marshal's headquarters and coal regions. Have ordered all to concentrate at Harrisburg. I have no troops to replace those at draft rendezvous. Will await instructions in regard to them.

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 36, Serial No. 68, Pages 802, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.