Summary:
Union General John Wool orders Lieutenant F. B. Crosby to move guns and supplies to Chambersburg in this September, 1862, dispatch. Union forces in Pennsylvania gathered at Chambersburg during Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland.

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Lieut. F. B. CROSBY,
Hagerstown, Md.:
(Via Harrisburg, Pa.)

Baltimore,

September 6, 1862.

LIEUT.:

Send the two Parrott guns and all surplus supplies to Chambersburg. You had better hasten as soon as possible to Chambersburg. I must leave the matter to your discretion, to be governed by the movements of the enemy. Answer immediately.

JOHN E. WOOL,
Maj.-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 796, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.