Summary:
Assistant Adjutant for the Department of the Susquehanna John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to Captain George Eyster in September, 1864, concerning efforts to enforce the draft. Schultze makes troops available to Eyster for those purposes.

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Capt. GEORGE EYSTER,
Provost-Marshal, Sixteenth Congressional District:

Chambersburg,

September 20, 1864.

CAPT.:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 18th instant, stating that you were about to commence drafting in your district, and that some troops would be required, &c. In reply the commanding general directs me to inform you that two companies of infantry and twenty mounted men are stationed at Bloody Run, and twenty mounted men at McConnellsburg, all under the command of Brig. Gen. O. S. Ferry, U. S. Volunteers, at Bedford, Pa., who has been directed to render you all the assistance you or your deputies may require in enforcing said draft.

I am, captain, 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 127, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.