Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued at Chambersburg in September, 1864, send units of Pennsylvania volunteer troops into the countryside, supplied with axes, ammunition, and rations.

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Chambersburg, Pa.

September 1, 1864.

6. Col. F. Avsury Awl, commanding Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, will send one company of infantry form his command to Carrick Furnance, in Path Valley, and another company to the mountain in the road leading from Fannettsburg to Burnt Cabins, and carry out the instructions to be furnished by Maj. John B. Burt, aide-de-camp, who will accompany the same, and the men will be supplied with six days' rations and forty rounds of ammunition, and each company supplies with twenty axes. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation for rations and axes. The troops will march promptly from heir present camp at 10 a. m., the 2d instant.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:

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 12, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.