Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, reports to General in Chief Henry Halleck on William Averell's July, 1864, abandonment of Hagerstown in the face of advancing Confederates, probably under Jubal Early.

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Maj.-Gen. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

July 29, 1864.

Gen. Averell reports that he held Hagerstown three hours, but both of his flanks being turned, he fell back on the Greencastle road.

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