Summary:
In this June, 1863, Confederate dispatch, First Corps Assistant Adjutant Moxley Sorrel writes General John Bell Hood with movement orders for his troops in the Chambersburg area. Sorrel also instructs Hood to destroy any stores of whiskey found at Scotland, but to confiscate other provisions.

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Maj. Gen. J. B. HOOD,
Cmdg. Division:

HDQRS. FIRST ARMY CORPS,

June 29, 1863.

GEN.:

The lieutenant-general commanding directs that you move your command at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning out on the Gettysburg turnpike to Greenwood, about seven miles from Chambersburg. Gen. McLaws will move to the same point at 7 o'clock, and you will probably find a good camp just on the other side of it. If there should still be any whisky at Scotland Depot when the regiment of yours now there shall be ordered away with you, the general wishes it destroyed. If there should be any other subsistence stores they must be either taken away or guarded.

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

G. M. SORREL,
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. 108, Pages 729-730, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.