Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, writes in May, 1864, to announce the departure of several regiments from the town, excepting a cavalry regiment that could not be relieved from duty in the anthracite coal region.

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Maj. T. M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

May 16, 1864.

There is one company of cavalry in the coal regions which cannot be relieved at present without manifest injury to the service. Will forward it as soon as I can supply its place. Eleven full companies, fully mounted and equipped, marched at 6 a. m. via Frederick for Washington.

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