Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: P. H. SHERIDAN, Maj.-Gen., Cmdg.
August 7, 1864

Summary:
Union General Philip Sheridan writes General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, to notify him that all Confederate troops have withdrawn back across the Potomac in August, 1864.


Maj.-Gen. COUCH,
Comdg. Department of the Susquehanna, Chambersburg:

HARPER'S FERRY,

August 7, 1864

The enemy have all recrossed the Potomac back to Virginia.

P. H. SHERIDAN,
Maj.-Gen., Cmdg.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 43, Serial No. 90, Pages 725, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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