Summary:
In this October, 1864, dispatch, Union Assistant Adjutant John Schultze writes from Chambersburg to Captian J. C. Hullinger with orders for his cavalry to arrest draft evaders.

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Capt. J. C. HULLINGER,
Company D, 21st Regt. Pennsylvania Cavalry, Pottsvile, Pa.:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

October 24, 1864.

CAPT.:

The commanding general directs that you proceed with your company, without delay, to Stroudsburg, Pa., and report to Capt. Samuel Yohe, provost-marshal Eleventh District, Easton, Pa., for orders. It is reported that the are over 1,500 drafted men in that district who have not reported. You are directed to arrest them, or make it too uncomfortable for them to stay in that region. Those of your command without horses will be left at Pottsville, under command of the second lieutenant, who will use every exertion, after the inspection by Col. Thomas S. Mather, to have the men mounted, and report to you with them for duty.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-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 463, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.