Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to General Darius
Couch to report Confederate advances in July, 1864.
Maj.-Gen. COUCH:
CHAMBERSBURG,
July 5, 1864.
The enemy drove McLean's pickets into town, when he charged on them, and when last heard from Stanwood was about fifty yards behind, giving them a volley almost every jump. They are now about six miles out.
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 77, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.