Summary:
Union staff officer Randolph Marcy writes General William B. Franklin in October, 1862, to authorize him to send troops and supplies to Chambersburg.

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Maj. Gen. W. B. FRANKLIN,
Hagerstown:

HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,

October 11, 1862

The commanding general approves your suggestion of sending two regiments and a section of artillery to Chambersburg, and you will accordingly do so. If it would in your judgment be advisable to send a force to Greencastle, you are authorized to do so, and to make other dispositions of your troops that you may think necessary from the information you receive from time to time.

R. B. MARCY,
Chief of Staff.

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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 880, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.