Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, writes Chief of Staff Henry Halleck in October, 1864, to notify him that after hearing news of General Philip Sheridan's victory in the Shenandoah Valley he countermanded orders providing for the defense of Pennsylvania.

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Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff:

CHAMBERSBURG,

October 20, 1864.

I have countermanded the order concerning the One hundred and eighty-seventh Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers since hearing of Sheridan's glorious victory.

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 434, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.