Summary:
In this December, 1864, dispatch, Union General George Cadwalader, in temporary command of the Department of the Susquehanna, writes from Chambersburg to Army Adjutant Lorenzo Thomas regarding Cadwalader's planned move to the district of Philadelphia.

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Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-Gen. U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

Chambersburg, Pa.,

December 2, 1864.

GEN.:

I have the honor to report that I am in command of the District of Philadelphia, to which I was assigned by orders from the War Department of August, 1864, and that I came here in pursuance of instructions from Maj.-Gen. Couch, commanding the department, to assume the command temporarily during his absence on furlough. Maj.-Gen. Couch having been relieved of the command of the department, I have continued temporarily in command of it, awaiting further orders. The only officer on duty on my personal staff is Capt. L. Harwood, of the One hundred and eighty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, aide-de-camp.

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

GEO. CADWALADER,
Maj.-Gen., Cmdg. Department.

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