Summary:
In this Octobr, 1864, dispatch, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton writes
General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, to request his reasoning
behind his movement of some troops.
Maj.-Gen. COUCH, Chambersburg:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
October 22, 1864.
Please report for what reason have you removed the cavalry company form Columbia county that was recently there.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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 451, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.