Summary:
This series of Union Special Orders for the Department of the Susquehanna issued
in Chambersburg in September, 1864, concern troop movements in Pennsylvania.
They also ask that a salute be fired by a battery near Chambersburg in honor of
General Phillip Sheridan's Union victories in the Shenandoah Valley.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
September 21, 1864.
2. Capt. J. K. Weaver, commanding Company F, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will send without delay twenty men, under command of a good officer, to Loudon Gap and relieve Company H, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Capt. J. D. Sutliff, on duty there.
3. Capt. John D. Sutliff, commanding Company H, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, upon being relieved at Loudon Gap by the detachment of Capt. J. K. Weaver's company, will proceed without delay to the camp of the Two hundred and first regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Back Creek, and report to Col. F. Asbury Awl, commanding, for orders.
4. Capt. M. Hastings, Keystone Battery, 100-days' Pennsylvania Artillery, commanding artillery near Chambersburg, Pa., will cause a national salute to be fired at 12 m. this day in honor of the brilliant victory of Maj.-Gen. Sheridan's troops over the combined rebel forces of Early and Breckinridge in the Shenandoah Valley on the 19th instant.
7. Col. Charles Albright, commanding Two hundred and second Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed without delay to Columbia County, Pa., via Mauch Chunk, and carry out instructions to be furnished by Brig. Gen. O. S. Ferry, U. S. Volunteers, at Harrisburg, Pa., after which he will return.
11. Capt. William McCarrol, commanding Company B, Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteer, will proceed without delay with his company and relieve Capt. Thomas S. McGowan, Independent Company (Patapsco Guards) Maryland Volunteer, as post commanded and his company as provost guard.
12. Capt. Thomas S. McGowan, Independent Company (Patapsco Guards) Maryland Volunteers, upon being relieved by Capt. William McCarrol, Company B, Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed with his company to the camp of the Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, and report to Col. R. Asbury Awl, commanding, for orders.
13. Company A, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty in the South Mountain, and will march to the camp of the Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, and report to Col. F. Asbury Awl, commanding, for orders.
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 140-141, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
