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WAR DEPARTMENT,
July 5, 1864 - 7. 10 p. m.
Major-General CADWALADER,
Philadelphia:
The following instruction* has been given by this Department to General Couch:
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You will please take every measure in your power to aid General Couch, and raise in Philadelphia such force as may be sufficient to protect the State from a raid, if it should be attempted. Please acknowledge this order. Acknowledge receipt of these instructions.
EDWIN. M. STANTON,
Secretary of war.
CHAMBERSBURG, July 5, 1864.
Major-General COUCH,
(Care Governor Curtin):
Lieutenant Draper, commanding at Hagerstown, telegraphs that he just received information that the enemy is advancing at mercersville, strength not known. Lieutenant Draper has under his command seventy-five men and two officers; states that he is picketing every road and scouting the river crossings. Generals Sigel and Stahel went to Harper's Ferry at noon yesterday. A large amount of Government stores and from 500 to 700 horses at Hagerstown. The enemy burned a large number of loaded boats at Slackwater, ten miles distant from hagerstown, at 10 p. m. yesterday. I have directed Lieutenant Draper to send out reliable scouts and ascertain the movements of the enemy and to see for themselves.
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
CHAMBERSBURG, July 5, 1864.
Major General D. N. COUCH:
Lieutenant McLean just reports that the enemy, about 300 strong, are within three miles of Hagerstown on the Sharpsburg pike. They appear to be mounted infantry. I have directed him to resist his advance and keep his line open, and not the destroy the Government property until he finds that he cannot hold the town; also to drive off all the Government animals at once.
JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HARRISBURG, July 5, 1864.
Major SCHULTZE:
Inform McLean, at Hagerstown, that our forces from Frederick drove in the rebel Johnson's picket at Boonsborough this evening.
D. N. COUCH,
Major-General.
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* See Stanton to Couch, July 4, p. 58.
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