Washington Washington, October 18, 1861. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Annapolis, Md.: Your dispatch of yesterday received and shown to General McClellan. Ihave promised him to not break his army here…
WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT, October 17, 1861. General MCCLELLAN: If Generals Stevens and Sherman want the New York Seventy-ninth to go with expedition, can you spare them without serious loss…
ANNAPOLIS ANNAPOLIS, October 17, 1861. Hon. THOMAS A. Soort, Assistant Secretary of War: Have received yourdispatch. I want the Highlanders (Seventy-ninth), and I have transportation. Send them on immediately.
Washington Washington, October 17, 1861. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Annapolis : _If General McClellan should consent to spare the New York Seventy ninth Regiment to join your expedition with General…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, October 14, 1801. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, U. S. Volunteers : SIR: You have been selected to command the land portion of a joint…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 14, 1861. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, U. S. A., New York City, N. Y.: General Scott says: *Come here with all your command…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 10, 1861. General T. W. Sherman, having been charged with the preparation of an expedition to rendezvous on Long Island Sound, will, on the part of…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 11, 1861. SIR: You will proceed to the capitals of the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and confer with the governors…
HEADQUARTERS MOUNTED REGIMENT, Pocotaligo, S. C., December 5, 1861—3 p. m.. GENERAL: I wrote to Captain Elliott yesterday that you desired his presence with mine at your headquarters to know…
POINT Or Rocks, Sunday POINT Or Rocks, Sunday, October 6, 1861. Colonel MARCY : : I arrived this morning at this post, traveling all night from Williamsport. It is my…