Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in July, 1863, to report that Dana had been ordered to move from Greencastle to Chambersburg.

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Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR:

HARRISBURG,

July 16, 1863--6 p. m.
(Received 8:50 p. m.)

Your dispatch just received. Dana is ordered in from Greencastle by telegraph to Chambersburg of this hour. I intended to have gone to Philadelphia myself was it not quiet. I have already sent there two regiments of infantry and a battery.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-Gen., Comdg.

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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 3, Serial No. 124, Pages 518, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.