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Unknown to Henry Wager Halleck, September 3, 1862
GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS, September 3, 1862. September 3, 1862—12 m. (Via Cairo, IL, 3 p. m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Generalin-Chié : Your dispatch for troops to go to…
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Unknown to John A. Logan, September 2, 1862
Jackson, Tenn., September 2, 1862. General JoHN A. LOGAN, Cairo: Re-enforcements have been sent. The enemy are still in check. R. R. TOWNES, Assistant Adjutant-General. CoLuMBUS, Ky., Via Cairo, Ill.,…
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Unknown to Henry W. Halleck, September 1, 1862
GENERAL GRANTâS HEADQUARTERS, September 1, 1862. September 1, 1862â5.30 p. m. General H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief : I am weak and threatened with present forces from Humboldt to Bolivar, and…
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Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 31, 1862
Washington, August 31, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss. : Could you send any more troops into Tennessee or Kentucky, east of the Cumberland, without risking your own positions ; if…
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Unknown, August 29, 1862
GENERAL ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, Iuka, August 29, 1862. With your approval I propose to cover the road to Decatur by the following dispositions:* Eight companies infantry, six cavalry, and a section…
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Unknown to Robert Allen, August 29, 1862
Washington, August 29, 1862. General ROBERT ALLEN, Chief Quartermaster, Saint Louis, Mo. : Columbus is not in the new Department of the Ohio, and Cairo was not intended to be.…
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Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 28, 1862
Washington, August 28, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss.: General Buell asks for re-enforcements. You will give him all the assistance you Can spare. H. W. HALLECK, General-in- Chief. CAIRO, ILL.,…
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Unknown to William T. Sherman, August 25, 1862
Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Memphis: My DEAR GENERAL: It was determined before I arrived here that gold and Treasury notes should be paid…
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Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 18, 1862
Washington, August 18, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss. : As General Buellâs communications in Tennessee and Kentucky are seriously threatened your communication with him should be kept open if possible.…
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Unknown to Griston Granger, August 11, 1862
August 11, 1862. August 11, 1862. General GRANGER, Rienzi : General Grant says he has information that 800 to 1,000 conscripts and guerrillas rendezvousing about Ripley are raiding up toward…