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.