Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, writes Chief of Staff Henry Halleck in August, 1864, to inform him that draft resisters captured in Columbia County will be sent on to Fort Mifflin.

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Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

August 31, 1864

Gen. Cadwalader reports that he captured seventy prisoners last night in Columbia County. These are chiefly leaders and others who were organized to resist the draft. They will be sent to Fort Mifflin.

COUCH,
Maj.-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 973, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.