Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in November, 1864, send Colonel T. S. Mather to assume command at
Pottsville.
Chambersburg, Pa.,
November 6, 1864.
2. Col. T. S. Mather, Second Regt. Illinois Light Artillery, acting assistant inspector-general of the department, will proceed without delay from Harrisburg to Pottsville and assume temporary command of the Lehigh District.
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 557, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.