Summary:
Union Captain S. F. Shaw writes General Benjamin F. Kelley on July 30, 1864, to report on the progress of the Confederate raid into southern Pennsylvania. Shaw reports that telegraph wires had been cut, and that the Confederates were making for Chambersburg.

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Gen. KELLEY:

HANCOCK,

July 30, 1864.

The rebels crossed at McCoy's Ferry yesterday. They made directly north; they were in Mercersburg last evening at 6 o'clock. They then went to Loudon, twenty-five miles north of here, and cut the telegraph about 8 o'clock last evening. No news from them since. Number not known; report to be some force. It is the general opinion that they are making for Chambersburg. This news is brought by Jonathan Hees, from Pott's Mills, twelve miles north of here.

S. F. SHAW,
Capt. and Assistant Engineer.

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