Summary:
Union Provost Marshal-General James B. Fry writes in August, 1863, to General Darius Couch, Commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg. Fry discusses using army regiments to enforce the draft in the mining districts of Pennsylvania.

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Col. J. B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-Gen.:

CHAMBERSBURG,

August 5, 1863.

I have two regiments and a battery at East Pottsville and Scranton and vicinity. My idea is that the enrollment can be completed with present force in those districts. Think it should be increased or more reliable troops sent when drafted men are taken.

D. N. COUCH,
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 3, Volume 3, Serial No. 124, Pages 629, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.