Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: JNO. S. SCHULTZE, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
October 21, 1864.

Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna in October, 1864, direct units of Pennsylvania 100 day volunteers to report at Chambersburg.


Chambersburg, Pa.,

October 21, 1864.

1. Lieut. Col. Charles Steward, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding U. S. forces at Johnstown, Pa., will proceed without delay with his command to Chambersburg, Pa., and report to the assistant adjutant-general of the department for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

2. Capt. J. P. Short, Sixteenth Regt. Veteran Reserve Corps, commanding U. S. forces in Columbia County, Pa., will send without delay two companies of the Veteran Reserve Corps from his command to Chambersburg, Pa., to report to the assistant adjutant-general of the department for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation by railroad from Bloomsburg, 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 443, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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