Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to General Darius
Couch with information about Confederate movements in July, 1864.
Maj.-Gen. COUCH,
(Care Governor Curtin):
CHAMBERSBURG,
July 5, 1864.
Lieut. Draper, commanding at Hagerstown, telegraphs that he just received information that the enemy is advancing at Mercersville, strength not known. Lieut. Draper has under his command seventy-five men and two officers; states that he is picketing every road and scouting the river crossings. Gen.'s Sigel and Stahel went to Harper's Ferry at noon yesterday. A large amount of Government stores and from 500 to 700 horses at Hagerstown. The enemy burned a large number of loaded boats at Slackwater, ten miles distant from Hagerstown, at 10 p. m. yesterday. I have directed Lieut. Draper to send out reliable scouts and ascertain the movements of the enemy and to see for themselves.
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
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 76, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
