Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued in Chambersburg by the Department of the
Susquehanna in October, 1864, concern troop movements in Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
October 6, 1864.
4. Brig. Gen. T. A. Rowley, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Monongahela District, will send, without delay, one company of the First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, from Pittsburg to Williamsport, Pa. to report to Capt. W. H. Blair, provost-marshal Eighteenth District, for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
5. Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will relieve, without delay, Capt. J. P. Short, Sixteenth Regt. Reserve Corps, from the command of troops at Johnstown, Pa. Upon being relieved Capt. J. P. Short will proceed to Bloomsburg and resume command of the troops in Columbia County, Pa.
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 306-307, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
