Summary:
Union war Department Assistant Adjutant Thomas Vincent writes in October, 1863, to General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna at Chambersburg, concerning mustering out of six months men. Vincent authorizes Couch to establish a muster-out rendezvous at Chambersburg.

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Maj.-Gen. COUCH,
Comdg. Department, Chambersburg, Pa.:

Washington,

October 1, 1863.

Secretary of War directs that all six-months' troops within your department, except those at Scranton, be immediately mustered out and discharged the service. Harrisburg and Philadelphia are fixed as rendezvous for muster-out; but should the localities where troops are from make it more proper to muster-out the troops now near Chambersburg and Pottsville at these places, respectively, order it, and all others to Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Inform Capt. Dodge, chief mustering officer at Harrisburg, and Capt. Lane, at Philadelphia, of the arrangements made by you. If troops are mustered out at Chambersburg and Pottsville it will hasten matters for you to appoint mustering-out officers at these places.

Paymasters at Philadelphia and Harrisburg will be ready to act on information received through the chief mustering officers at those places. It is directed that the troops in question may be mustered out and paid off within forty-eight hours. Clothing issued to them will not be charged on muster-out rolls. Acknowledge this and report all you do.

THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant 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 3, Serial No. 124, Pages 858, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.