James A. Garfield to James B. Fry, January 14, 1862
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Camp Buell, Paintsville, January 14, 1862. DEAR SIR: At the date of my last report (January 8) I was preparing to pursue the enemy. The transportation of…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Camp Buell, Paintsville, January 14, 1862. DEAR SIR: At the date of my last report (January 8) I was preparing to pursue the enemy. The transportation of…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Paintsville, Ky., January 8, 1862. DEAR SIR: On Sunday, January 5, I drove in several small scouting parties of the enemy, killing 1 of them. On Monday,…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH DRIGADE, Camp Pardee, January 4, 1862. DEAR SIR: Shortly after the date of my last report to you, of December 26, I received intelligence that the enemy had…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. Sir: I advanced from Louisa on the 23d instant, with nine companies of the Forty-second Ohio, three companies of the Fourteenth Kentucky,…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are…