Summary:
Union Major J. B. Burt reports from Chambersburg in July, 1864. He infroms General Darius Couch of the strength and location of approaching Confederate forces.

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Maj.-Gen. COUCH:

CHAMBERSBURG,

July 10, 1864.

The enemy are 3,000 strong around Lewistown and Creagerstown, Md., under Bradley T. Johnson. Impossible to get near Frederick at this point. There is a force supposed to number 7,000 men at Smoketown. It is confirmed about the enemy fortifying South Mountain. Imboden, with about 1,500 men, came down the west side of the mountain; about eight of the enemy came into Smithtown, eight miles from Waynesborough, for plunder. I had to come here to get fresh horses; before leaving Waynesborough I started two good men toward Boonsborough.

J. B. BURT,
Maj., &c.

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