Summary:
Union General in Chief Henry Halleck writes to General Darius Couch on July 30,
1864, to request more information on the fall of Chambersburg.
Maj. Gen. D. N. COUCH,
Carlisle or Harrisburg, Pa.:
WASHINGTON,
July 30, 1864
Can you give any definite information of the enemy's force which entered Chambersburg? Was it a cavalry raid or the main army?
H. W. HALLECK,
Maj.-Gen. and Chief of Staff.
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 524, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.