Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in September, 1864, concern command changes and troop movements to
and from Chambersburg.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
September 29, 1864.
4. Capt. Thomas S. McGowan, Patapsco Guard, Independent Company Maryland Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, with his company, to Chambersburg, and relieve Capt. Lewis Degen, Company B, Two hundred and second Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, as post commander, and his company as provost-guard. Upon being relieved, Capt. Degen will report with his company to the commanding officer of his regiment for orders.
5. The commanding officer of the Two hundred and second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers will proceed, without delay, with his regiment from Chambersburg to Washington, D. C., and report for orders to Maj.-Gen. Augur, commanding Department of Washington. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
7. Capt. John G. Wilson, commanding First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, by railroad, with three companies under his command, from Chambersburg to Pittsburg, Pa., and carry out the instructions which he may receive from Maj. Richard I. Dodge, U. S. Army, and acting assistant provost-marshal-general, Western Division of Pennsylvania. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
11. Col. F. Asbury Awl, Two hundred and first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed, without delay, with the six companies of his regiment under his command, by railroad, from Huntington, Pa., to Washington, D. C., and report to Maj.-Gen. Augur, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Department of Washington, for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
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 217, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
