Summary:
In this July, 1864, dispatch, Union Cavalry officer H. T. McLean reports from Greencastle on his efforts to oppose Confederate forces raiding north of the Potomac. He mentions plans to fall back on Chambersburg.

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Maj. SCHULTZE.

GREENCASTLE,

July 6, 1864.

I was being flanked at Muttontown and have fallen back to this place. I have all the roads picketed here, and will try and hold out as long as I can. Lieut. Torrence, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and 20 of his men were taken in consequence of his having gone farther than I directed; 1 corporal and 5 of my men were captured with him. The force pressed me very hard at Hagerstown, and I was being surrounded when I left and fought them all the way to Muttontown. If they come upon me here I will give them the best turn I can and fall back upon Chambersburg if I am driven. Please send me rations for 100 men as soon as you can. I am completely out.

H. T. MCLEAN,
First Lieut., Sixth Cavalry.

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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 37, Serial No. 70, Pages 338, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.