Summary:
In this July, 1864, dispatch, Union General William Averell writes to General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, to request signal officers with which to set up a station.

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Maj.-Gen. COUCH, Chambersburg, Pa.:

HAGERSTOWN, MD.,

July 27, 1864.

If you have two signal officers to spare please send them here. I wish to establish a station at Fairview, and have but one officer. The 100-days' men report enemy crossing at Cherry Run.

WM. W. AVERELL,
Brig.-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 477, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.