Summary:
Union General Darius Couch's Assistant Adjutant John Schultze addresses the citizens of Franklin County in this July 6, 1864, circular. The dispatch orders all militia volunteers responding to Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin's call to assemble at Chambersburg where they will be equipped. The call for state volunteers went out in response to a raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania by Confederates under Jubal Early.

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Chambersburg, Pa.,

July 6, 1864.

CITIZENS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY:

In obedience to the proclamation of the Governor of Pennsylvania, dated Harrisburg, July 5, 1864, calling for 12,000 militia volunteer infantry to serve for 100 days, unless sooner discharged, the commanding general requests that all old soldiers and others responding to the above call will assemble at Chambersburg at once to be organized by the Government. Arms, subsistence, and clothing will be furnished by the military authorities. Information has been received to the effect that the Pennsylvania Reserves throughout the State are turning out en masse.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:

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