Summary:
Assistant Adjutant for the Department of the Susquehanna, John Schultze, issues in Chambersburg these August, 1864, orders. Schultze instructs Captain Samuel Walker to gather his company for the purpose of obstructing roads and defending Pennsylvania in the event of a Confederate move across the Potomac.

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Capt. SAMUEL WALKER:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

August 26, 1864

CAPT.:

The commanding general requests that you get your company together, and with axes and rifles proceed to defend the roads through the gap between Fannettsburg and Burnt Cabins. You must also have pickets at Loudon and be in readiness when they inform you of the approach of the enemy to have the roads above mentioned made inaccessible by felling trees and other obstructions, and thus defend the same by bushwhacking, &c. There is no enemy reported north of the Potomac yet, but there is no doubt about there being a large force on the south side, and it will be well for the Government and yourself to be in readiness to meet any advance they might make in your direction. Please state by the bearer what action you intend taking and the probable success.

I am, captain, 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.