Summary:
These Union special orders dated August 12, 1864, concern the movement from
Chambersburg of cavalry and 100 day volunteers.
Harrisburg, Pa.,
August 12, 1864.
4. Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Brandywine District, will send without delay one company of 100-days' infantry from Chambersburg, Pa., to Scranton, Pa., with orders to report to Capt. S. N. Bradford, provost-marshal Twelfth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
5. Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Brandywine District, will send without delay the company of 100-days' infantry now at First Washington to Chambersburg, Pa., with orders to report to Lieut.-Col. Stewart, commanding First Battalion (100-days') Pennsylvania Volunteers, at that place. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
6. Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Brandywine District, will send without delay by railroad twelve mounted men with their horses, under command of a reliable non-commissioned officer, from Capt. George D. Storoud's company of mounted men for 100-days' service (now at Chambersburg), with orders to report to Capt. S. N. Bradford, provost-marshal Twelfth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
7. Capt. C. N. Turnbull, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, having completed the duties assigned him in paragraph 1, Special Orders, No. 177, from these headquarters, dated August 1, 1864, is hereby relieved from duty as chief engineer of the Department of the Susquehanna.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:
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 43, Serial No. 90, Pages 782, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
