Summary:
Pennsylvania politician and ex-secretary of war Simon Cameron writes Abraham Lincoln on July 30, 1864, to notify him of the Confederate occupation of Chambersburg.

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President A. LINCOLN:

HARRISBURG, PA.,

July 30, 1864.

Rebels entered Chambersburg at 3 o'clock this morning in three columns. This is fifty miles from here. Send us a general fit to command, and we will try to take care of ourselves. Gen. Couch is said to be at Bedford.

SIMON CAMERON.

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