Summary:
Union General Darius Couch responds to a telegram from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton received at Chambersburg in this July, 1864, dispatch. Couch reports on a rumored Confederate advance.

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Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR:

HARRISBURG, PA.,

July 7, 1864--2 p. m. (Received 3 p. m.)

Your dispatch of 3.10 yesterday to me, and repeated to-day, was received on my arrival at Chambersburg at 9 o'clock p. m., and answered immediately. An intelligent officer is at Waynesborough vicinity endeavoring, by the aid of scouts, to find out about the rebels crossing at Shepherdstown, &c. I have no information of it from any of my scouts or Sigel's who have come into my lines. A dispatch of 12.45 p. m. to-day states that one regiment of infantry and one of cavalry are in bivouac three miles beyond Greencastle. Any reliable information of importance shall be sent you at once.

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 37, Serial No. 71, Pages 116, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.