Summary:
Assistant Adjutant for the Department of the Susquehanna T. Brent Swearingen writes in August, 1864, to Colonel D. P. Whiting. Swearingen informs Whiting that he must now accept orders from headquarters at Chambersburg.

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Col. D. P. WHITING, U. S. Army,
Cmdg. Fort Mifflin:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

August 30, 1864.

COL.:

In reply to your communication of the 25th instant, I am directed by the commanding general to say that by General Orders, No. 48, current series, Department of the Susquehanna, Fort Mifflin is made a separate post, and that hereafter you will report directly to these headquarters, from which source you will receive your orders. Quartermaster's and commissary supplies will be furnished by the officers of those departments in Philadelphia on your requisition, or on orders from these headquarters.

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

T. BRENT SWEARINGEN,
Capt. 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 970-971, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.