Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, writes Assistant Adjutant Edward D. Townsend in October, 1864, to announce that he is giving up his leave of absence due to alarm over a rumored Confederate raid north of the Potomac.

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Brig. Gen. E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

October 19, 1864

In consequence of some alarm along the border as to the probability of a raid, I give up my leave.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-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 420, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.