Summary:
A. K. McClure writes from Chambersburg to Abraham Lincoln in August, 1864, in an attempt to prevent the removal of General Darius Couch from command of the Department of the Susquehanna in the aftermath of the burning of Chambersburg by raiding Confederate forces.

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His Excellency A. LINCOLN,
President of the United States:

CHAMBERSBURG,

August 1, 1864.

The removal of Gen. Couch would be a gross wrong and do much evil. He did everything possible with his limited means of defense.

A. K. McCLURE.

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