Summary:
These Union General Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg in September, 1864, establish the Juniata District of Pennsylvania.

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Chambersburg, Pa.

September 6, 1864.

That portion of the Department of the Susquehanna lying between the Laurel Hill range of mountains on the west, and the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, the Susquehanna River from Williamsport to the intersection of Blue Mountain, and that range of mountains to the Maryland line on the east, will comprise the Juniata District. Brig. Gen. O. S. Ferry, U. S. Volunteers, is assigned to the command of this district, headquarters temporarily at Bedford, Pa.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Maj. and 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 41-42, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.