Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., December 22, 1861. General THOMAS, Commanding First Division, Lebanon: SIR: Acting Brigadier-General Carter reports that by your orders it is forbidden to receive fugitive slaves into…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OBIO, Louisville, Ky., December 2, 1861. Colonel WARNER, Commanding Regiment Kentucky Volunteers : ` SIR: The general commanding has placed upon you the responsibility of guarding…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., December 2, 1861. Col. CURRAN POPE, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers : SIR: The general’commanding has placed upon you the responsibility of guarding against all injury,…
Lowisville, Ky. Lowisville, Ky., December 2, 1861. SIR: The general commanding directs that you establish your regiment at or near the town of Prestonburg, with a view of giving security…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., December 2, 1861. Colonel DUFFIELD, SIR: The general commanding assigns you to the command of the post and field work at the mouth of Salt River.…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, November 22, 1861. Brig. Gen. C. F. SMITH, Commanding, do., at Paducah, Ky.: It is reported that Goral Hardee, with 8,000 men, is about to cross…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., November 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Division, Crab Orchard, Ky. : SIR: General Buell directs me to say that the orders he has…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, Calhoun, Ky., December 29, 1861. CAPTAIN: I regret to inform you that on yesterday, as a command of from a reconnaissance, they were pursued and surprised by…
Arlington Arlington, June 5, 1861. Lieutenant Tompkins behaved most gallantly in the spirited encounter in which he involved himself. He had two herses shot under him, and is now temporarily…
GENERAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, October 26, 1862. No. 49. In Camp, October 26, 1862. I. All recruits for the rebel army captured or arrested by troops…