Summary:
These Union Special Orders, issued at Chambersburg in September, 1864, contain
movement orders for troops under the authority of the Department of the
Susquehanna.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
September 18, 1864.
1. Col. F. Asbury Awl, commanding Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, will send without delay one company to Scranton, Pa., with orders to report to Capt. S. N. Bradford, provost-marshal Twelfth Congressional District, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation by railroad.
2. Lieut. Aubrey Henry, commanding Railroad Troops, Independent Mounted Company (100-days') Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed without delay with the same to Easton, Pa., and report to Capt. Samuel Yohe, provost-marshal Eleventh District, Pennsylvania, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
3. Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding U. S. forces in Columbia County, Pa., will relieve the remaining company of the One hundred and eighty-sixth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers from duty in that county, and order it to proceed without delay to Philadelphia, Pa., and report to Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, U. S. Volunteers, military commander, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
6. Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding U. S. forces in Columbia County, Pa., will proceed without delay with three companies of 100-days' infantry and half of the Independent Mounted Company, under the command of the first lieutenant, to Muncy, Pa., and await orders from Capt. Richard I. Dodge, U. S. Army, acting provost-marshal-general, Western Division of Pennsylvania.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 43, Serial No. 91, Pages 108-109, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
