CAMP FITZGERALD, CAL. CAMP FITZGERALD, CAL., August 21, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General: CAPTAIN: Yesterday it became known through this camp that I was to be relieved in command here by Captain…
Fort CASCADES, WASH. TER. Fort CASCADES, WASH. TER., August 23, 1861. Lieut. A. C. WILDRICK, Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters District of Oregon, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter.: LIEUTENANT: I…
PIMA VILLAGES PIMA VILLAGES, August 23, 1861. Lieut. Col. GEORGE ANDREWS, Sixth Infantry, Commanding Fort Yuma: SIR: Inclosed please find Mesilla papers, containing full accounts of the proceedings of the…
NORWICH, N. Y. NORWICH, N. Y., August 23, 1861. Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, s Secretary of State: SIR: I received this day the inclosed from my son and have no…
Camp Fitegerald, Cal. Camp Fitegerald, Cal., August 24, 1861. Capt. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco: CAPTAIN: I report that I have changed the position of my camp (no…
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 24, 1861. Ninth Infantry, Comdg. U. S. Troops at Cascades, Wash. Ter.: CAPTAIN: I have received your reports of yesterday. Make…
FORT CROOK, CAL. FORT CROOK, CAL., August 25, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. : CAPTAIN: I have the honor to inclose Lieutenant Feilner’s report. As I…
ForT CASCADES, WASH. TER. ForT CASCADES, WASH. TER., August 25, 1861. Capt. H. M. BLACK, Commanding Troops, Fort Cascades, Wash. Ter.: CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that in…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Bliss, August 25, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to report the capture of a detachment from Fort Craig of 9 men and a Captain Hubbell, of the…
FORT CROOK, CAL. FORT CROOK, CAL., August 25, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. : CAPTAIN: I have the honor to inclose Lieutenant Feilner’s report. As I…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, D. O., August 27, 1861. [General THOMAS W. SHERMAN :] SIR: Your letter of the 20th instant having been submitted to the Secretary of War,…
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., August 28, 1861. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War: DEAR SIR: Since the arrival of the pony express, with Washington dates of August 16,…
CLARKSBURG CLARKSBURG, August 28, 1861. General Cox reports, under date 27th, Seventh Ohio, under Tyler, advanced regiment at Cross-Lanes, below Summersville, was surprised by Floyd while eating his breakfast, and…
fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter. fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 29, 1861. CAPTAIN: I have received your communication of the 20th instant. The excitement in relation to our Indian affairs at…
San Francisco San Francisco, August 29, 1861. Col. W. SEAWELL, Commanding Benicia Barracks, Cal. : I wish you to encamp a company close to the new ordnance building and put…
Camp near San Bernardino, Cal. Camp near San Bernardino, Cal., August 30, 1861. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, U.S. Army, Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: From information this…
San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, Cal., August 30, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received the General-in-Chief’s dispatch, informing me that I am to command an expedition to Texas, While…
Camp Fitzgerald, Cal. Camp Fitzgerald, Cal., August 30, 1861. Capt. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco : CAPTAIN: My letter of August 24 will explain what kind of sheds…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Fitzgerald, Cal., August 31, 1861. Capt. R. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco : CAPTAIN: As stated in my letter of the 30th instant, I left here this…
San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, Cal., August 31, 1861. Col. B. L. BEALL, First Dragoons, Commanding District of Oregon: SIR: The general commanding the department has reason to fear that…
BENICIA ARSENAL BENICIA ARSENAL, August 31, 1861. Col. JAMES H. CARLETON, Headquarters California Volunteers, San Francisco: SIR: Your telegraph of the 26th instant has been complied with. The ammunition for…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFICO, San Francisco, August 31, 1861. Messrs. B. J. PINGREE, GEORGE H. BELDEN, and others, Eugene City, Lane County, Oreg.: GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the…
HEADQUARTERS SOUTH CAROLINA, September 1, 1861. September 1, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War: SIR: Colonel Gregg has two companies here, and desires that they may be received…
HDQRS. PROVISIONAL FORCES, DEPT. OF S. O., Charleston, September 1, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to request that authority may be given me to provide the force necessary for…