Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: D. N. COUCH, Maj.-Gen.
July 26, 1864

Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports from Chambersburg to Chief of Staff Henry Halleck regarding the positions of Union and Confederate troops in July, 1864.


Maj.-Gen. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

July 26, 1864

I am informed that Averell's cavalry holds the Potomac in front of Hagerstown, and that Gen. Hunter's infantry are concentrating in direction of Sharpsburg and Harper's Ferry. I do not know the numbers of enemy's force.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-Gen.


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


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