Records Related to Franklin County Regiments



From: G. M. SORREL, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
June 29, 1863.

Summary:
In this June, 1863, Confederate dispatch, First Corps Assistant Adjutant Moxley Sorrel writes General Lafayette McLaws with orders to camp near Chambersburg.


Maj. Gen. L. MCLAWS,
Cmdg. Division:

June 29, 1863.

GEN.:

The lieutenant-general commanding directs that you move your command at 7 o' clock to-morrow morning out on the Gettysburg road to Greenwood, about seven miles from Chambersburg, and camp there. Gen. Pickett will relieve the regiment you have on duty in town early in the morning.

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

G. M. SORREL,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.


Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 729, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.


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