Summary:
In this June, 1863, dispatch, Union Staff officer Donn Platt writes Captain
William H. Boyd, stationed at Chambersburg, with orders to move his cavalry
troops.
Capt. WILLIAM H. BOYD,
First New York Cavalry,
Chambersburg, Pa.:
Baltimore
June 15, 1863.
You will immediately proceed with your command, together with all other cavalry from this department that may have arrived at Chambersburg, and go by way of Emmitsburg and Frederick to Harper's Ferry, there to report to Brig.-Gen. Tyler for duty.
By order of Maj.-Gen. Schenck:
DONN PLATT,
Chief of Staff.
Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 107, Pages 1057, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.