Summary:
These Union Special orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in October, 1864, concern troop movements to and from
Chambersburg.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
October 5, 1864.
3. Col. Charles Albright, Two hundred and second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, having completed the special duties assigned him in paragraph 7, Special Orders, No. 222, from these headquarters, is hereby relieved from duty in this department, and will proceed without delay from Chambersburg, Pa., to Washington, D. C., and report to Maj. Gen. C. C. Augur, Cmdg. Department of Washington, for orders.
5. The section of Keystone Battery, 100-days' Pennsylvania Artillery, commanded by Lieut. John Roberts, is hereby relieved from duty in Columbia County, Pa., and will proceed without delay, by railroad, to Philadelphia and report to Capt. M. Hastings, commanding company, 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 295, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.