Summary:
These Union Special Orders issued by the Department of the Susquehanna at
Chambersburg in September, 1864, concern movement orders for troops in
Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.
September 15, 1864.
1. Brig. Gen. O. S. Ferry, U. S. Volunteers, commanding Juniata District, will relieve the detachment mounted men from Capt. E. M. Warren's mounted company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, except five privates and one non-commissioned officer, and order the same to report to the commanding officer of the company near McConnellsburg, Pa.
2. Capt. E. M. Warren, commanding Independent Mounted Company 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, will proceed without delay with his company to Shimpstown, Pa., and report to Capt. C. B. Hebble, commanding at that place, for orders.
3. Lieut. Col. Charles Stewart, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding U. S. forces in Columbia County, Pa., will send without delay one company of the One hundred and eighty-sixth Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers to Philadelphia, Pa., with orders to reports to Maj. Gen. George Cadwalader, military commander. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.
By command of Maj.-Gen. Couch:
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Maj. and 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 93, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.