Summary:
Union Colonel and Department of Pennsylvania Assistant Adjutant Fitz-John Porter issues orders in May, 1861, for several Pennsylvania regiments to proceed by train to Chambersburg.

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SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 49. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

May 28, 1861.

The Sixth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Regiments Pennsylvania Volunteers will move as rapidly as transportation can be provided to Chambersburg. Before leaving the cars at that point the commanding officer of each regiment will report for orders to the senior officer present.

By order of Maj.-Gen. Patterson:

F. J. PORTER,
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 51, Serial No. 107, Pages 390, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.