Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to General Darius Couch in July, 1864, to report on approaching mounted Confederate forces.

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Maj. Gen. D. N. COUCH:

CHAMBERSBURG,

July 5, 1864.

Lieut. McLean just reports that the enemy, about 300 strong, are within three miles of Hagerstown on the Sharpsburg pike. They appear to be mounted infantry. I have directed him to resist his advance and keep his line open, and not the destroy the Government property until he finds that he cannot hold the town; also to drive off all the Government animals at once.

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

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