Summary:
These December, 1864, Union General Orders change the name of the Department of the Susquehanna to the Department of Pennsylvania, and move the headquarters from Chambersburg to Philadelphia.

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Chambersburg, Pa.,

December 7, 1864.

The following general orders from the War Department is republished for the information of all concerned in this department:

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 293. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GEN.'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., December 1, 1864.

The Department of the Susquehanna will hereafter be known as the Department of Pennsylvania, headquarters at Philadelphia.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.

By command of Maj.-Gen. Cadwalader:

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