Summary:
Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg in August, 1864, to Major Szink, commanding a battalion of 100 day militia troops. He gives Szink orders to guard roads in the area, and watch for suspicious persons.

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Maj. SZINK,
Comdg. Battalion (100-days') Pennsylvania Volunteers:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

August 26, 1864

MAJ.:

The commanding general directs that you station a picket of twenty men at Turkey Foot, on the Warm Springs road, whose duty it will be to see that no suspicious persons pass, and that no one excepting those able to give an account of themselves be allowed to come into town. The officers in charge must be vigilant and active. I will send you a mounted man who will go with the party and carry any information of importance to these headquarters.

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Maj. and 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 43, Serial No. 90, Pages 929, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.