Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued from Chambersburg in September, 1864, contain marching orders for a battalion of 100 day state volunteer troops. The orders also request that the battalion commander report to Department of the Susquehanna headquarters at Chambersburg.

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Lieut. Col. CHARLES STEWART,
First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

September 18, 1864

COL.:

The commanding general directs that upon receipt of paragraph 6, Special Orders, No. 219, from these headquarters, of the 18th instant, that you will march without delay with that portion of your command mentioned therein to Muncy, and await orders from Capt. R. I. Dodge, U. S. Army, acting assistant provost-marshal-general. Upon your arrival at Muncy report to at once by letter to Capt. Dodge. You are also directed not to let it be know where you are going. Capt. Woods, assistant quartermaster, will remain with the troops in Columbia County. You will direct the senior officer present with troops you leave at Columbia County to assume command, and forward at once a report of the same to these headquarters. You will also forward monthly and tri-monthly returns to these headquarters as heretofore.

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

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
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. 91, Pages 109, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.