Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in September, 1864, concern the movement of bodies of troops to and
from Chambersburg.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
September 28, 1864.
1. Col. F. Asbury Awl, Two hundred and first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, by railroad, with six companies of his regiment from Chambersburg to Pittsburg, Pa., and carry out the instructions which he may receive from Maj. R. I. Dodge, U. S. Army, and acting assistant provost-marshal-general, Western Division of Pennsylvania. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
2. First Lieut. S. C. Wiestling, Independent Mounted Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, by railroad, with his company, from Greencastle to Pittsburg, Pa., and report to Col. F. Asbury Awl, Two hundred and first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, at that place, for duty. The quartermaster's will furnish the necessary transportation.
3. Capt. W. H. Dunbar, Forty-eighth Regt. New York Volunteers, and acting chief ordnance officer of the Department of the Susquehanna, will return without delay to the city council of Philadelphia the 20-pounder Parrott guns, caissons, ammunition, harness, implements, &c., which were loaded the United States in July last by said council. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
5. Capt. Lewis Degen, commanding Company B, Two hundred and second Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, with his company, to Chambersburg and relieve Capt. William McCarrol, Company B, Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, and post commander, and his company as provost guard. Upon being relieved, Capt. McCarrol will report with his company to Col. F. Asbury Awl, Two hundred and first Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 207-208, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
