Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, writes in July, 1864, to General William Averell regarding farmers in the Williamsport area returning with their horses.

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Brig. Gen. W. W. AVERELL:

CHAMBERSBURG,

July 28, 1864.

I hear that quite a number of farmers from neighborhood of Williamsport are returning with their horses; use your own discretion about allowing them to pass the line of Hagerstown.

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