Summary:
In these December, 1864, Union Special Orders issued at Chambersburg, General Darius Couch announces he will be relinquishing his position as head of the Department of the Susquehanna. Couch thanks his officers, as well as the politicians and citizens of Pennsylvania, for their support and cooperation during his tenure in that office.

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Chambersburg, Pa.,

December 1, 1864.

In obedience to the orders of the lieutenant-general commanding the Armies of the United States I hereby relinquish command of the Department of the Susquehanna.

In so doing I desire to express my sincere thanks to the officers in charge of the several staff departments and those in command of district and posts for the able and satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their duties; and to the chief executive of the State, the heads of the different State departments, and to the citizens generally, for their hearty co-operation in my endeavors to maintain law and order, and their cordial support to the measures adopted for their protection.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-Gen., U. S. Volunteers.

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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 724, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.