Summary:
Union Army Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas writes Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in November, 1862, concerning new recruits, including some at Chambersburg.

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Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

HARRISBURG, PA.,

November 10, 1862.

Instructions received, and I shall now proceed to fully organize the drafted men and put the regiments en route. Shall any of the regiments organized at Pittsburg be sent to Kentucky? Those here and at Philadelphia I suppose will go to Washington. The men to rendezvous at Chambersburg, Gettysburg, and York will make four regiments. These could go to Hagerstown and march to Harper's Ferry, if desired. Are these regiments to be armed in the State? It would be better to do so, and a supply sent to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburg.

L. THOMAS,
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 3, Volume 2, Serial No. 123, Pages 760-761, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.