Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in October, 1864, concern troop movements.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
October 24, 1864.
10. Capt. T. H. Bates, Company A, First Regt. New York Artillery, will report without delay with his command to Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-day's Pennsylvania Volunteers, for orders.
11. Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-day's Pennsylvania Volunteers, will break camp at 8 a. m. the 25th instant, and proceed with his command to the Maryland line, via Mercersburg, Pa., and carry out the instructions which he may receive from the assistant adjutant-general of the department.
12. Capt. Abraham Cottrell, Company H, sixteenth regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, will proceed without delay with his command to Pottsville, Pa., for duty in the Lehigh district. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
16. Capt. Abraham Cottrell, Company H, Sixteenth Regt. veteran Reserve Corps, will proceed without delay with his company to Carlisle, Pa., and report to Capt. William B. Royall, U. S. Army, commanding Carlisle Barracks, for temporary duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
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 462, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
