Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, writes General in Chief Henry Halleck in July, 1864, to report the number and location of men in his Department of the Susquehanna.

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Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

July 28, 1864

I have sixty infantry, forty cavalry, and two guns in this Valley, the cavalry being the permanent party of Carlisle, not of my command; two sections and forty infantry at Harrisburg; one cavalry company, Lehigh District; forty independent and unpaid horsemen near Emmitsburg; Veteran Reserves, twelve companies, guarding hospitals, Petersburg, York, Philadelphia; provost guard, Philadelphia; one company Veterans, Pittsburg. The rendezvous at Carlisle has eighty reliable men. Six companies 100-days' men, unorganized into regiments, are between Harrisburg and Pittsburg. Have been ordered here. I will send them to Hagerstown when they arrive. Have already sent there my 100-days' mounted men--two companies.

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