Summary:
In this September, 1864, dispatch, Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to Colonel F. Asbury Awl with orders for a march through Franklin County, including regulations for the conduct of the troops.

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Col. F. ASBURY, AWL,
201st Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

September 22, 1864.

COL.:

The commanding general directs that in carrying out the instructions contained in paragraphs 1 and 2, Special Orders, No. 223, headquarters Department of the Susquehanna, of this date, you will march your command as follows: From your present camp to Loudon; from thence to Cove Gap; from thence to Camp Hill, via Mercersburg and Shimpstown; from Camp Hill to Upton; from thence to Greencastle; from thence to Marchel Roads, three miles below Chambersburg; and from there direct to your present places of encampment. The strictest discipline will be observed in the march, all officers to be with their regiments and companies. No straggling must be allowed. Camp guards will be established before the troops stack arms on arriving in camp. No officer will be permitted to leave camp or their commands without proper authority from the commanding officer of the troops. The march will be an easy one, with frequent halts, and should be accomplished in four days.

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