Summary:
Union General Darius Couch writes from Chambersburg to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in July, 1864, with scouting reports on a Confederate advance.

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Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of war:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.

July 6, 1864

I have no information from Shepherdstown or Sharpsburg. Scouts report 1,000 cavalry at Middleburg. My advance, now at Greencastle, reports 500 at that place. Of a line of scouts engaged not one has come in with information. I should think that Gen. Sigel's scouts could readily observe from the mountains running north from Maryland Heights what is done at Antietam Ford.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-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 96, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.