HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 8, 1862. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Hilton Head: GENERAL: By the steamer McClellan, which left for Hilton Head this morning, I informed…
February 28, 1862. Port Royal, S. 0., February 28, 1862. Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: GENERAL: The deserters just in from Savannah say there are about 65,000 troops in and…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Steamer Empire City, Warsaw Sound, Ga., February 10, 1862. General THoMAS W. SHERMAN: GENERAL: I send the steamer Marion to Hilton Head to-day to procure…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Hilton Head, S. C., January 31, 1862. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, do. : GENERAL: I inclose for your consideration a brief draught of proposed operations…
Fernandina, Fla., April 10, 1862. Lieut. Col. H. BISBEE, Jr., Ninth Maine Regiment, Commanding Post, Fernandina, Fla.: COLONEL: Three companies of the Fourth New Hampshire Regiment, now on board the…
Jacksonville, Fla., April 8, 1862. Lieut. Col. Louis BELL . Comdg. Fourth N. H. Regiment, Saint Augustine, Fla.: COLONEL: The major-general commanding the department having directed the abandonment of Jacksonville…
Jacksonville, Fla., April 2, 1862. Commanding Provisional Forces of East Florida, Camp Langford, East Florida: COLONEL: After a careful consideration of the propositions presented in your communication of the 1st…
April 13, 1862. Port Royal Harbor, 8. O., April 13, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding the Northern District, that, in…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 15, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that I have just learned from my aide-de camp, Lieutenant Hubbell, who aecompanied…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 5, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that the combined navy and army expedition is in possession of Fernandina…