Summary:
In this August, 1864, dispatch, Assistant Adjutant for the Department of the Susquehanna T. Brent Swearingen writes from Chambersburg to Captain E. M. Warren commanding a company of 100 day Pennsylvania state volunteers. Swearingen orders Warren to be alert for stragglers and deserters, and to report recovery of government property to headquarters at Chambersburg.

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Capt. E. M. WARREN,
Independent Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

August 31, 1864.

CAPT.:

The commanding general directs that you move your command from where it is at present located to within three of four miles of McConnellsburg, establishing your camp at a point where wood and water are easily accessible. You will keep constantly on the alert in regard to deserters and stragglers, arresting them wherever found. All Government property in the hands of unauthorized persons should be taken charge of, and the facts promptly reported to these headquarters.

I am, captain, 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 973-974, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.