Summary:
In this October, 1864, dispatch, Union Captain T. Brent Swearingen writes from Chambersburg to Captain L. B. Norton at Greencastle to notify him that reinforcements are being sent to help guard the Pennsylvania border.

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Capt. L. B. NORTON,
Chief Signal Officer, Dept. of the Susquehanna, Greencastle, Pa.:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

October 29, 1864.

CAPT.:

I have the honor to inform you that Lieut. C. H. Fullweler, Independent Mounted Company 100-day's Pennsylvania Volunteers, is ordered to report to you with twenty men of his company, for such duty as you may require in watching the approaches to this valley. Lieut. O. N. Ramsey, of Capt. Lambert's Independent Mounted Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, with a detachment of men, has been ordered to Shimpstown, where they will be stationed for the present.

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

T. BRENT SWEARINGEN,
Capt. and 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 493, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.