Summary:
Union General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, writes in August, 1863, to Provost Marshal-General James B. Fry concerning drafted men serving in militia regiments.

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Col. J. B. FRY:

CHAMBERSBURG, PA.,

August 14, 1863.

Can't you direct that drafted men who are now serving as State militia need not report to district provost-marshal until ten days after their regiment is mustered out of service?

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