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17,141 lettersWAR DEPARTMENT, NITER AND MINING BUREAU, Richmond, November 20, 1864. Chief of Bureau: COLONEL: Your questions on the iron service are hereinafter replied to in their order: Eighteen furnaces remain…
Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., November 17, 1864. Chief Commissary of Subsistence : MaJor: Your letter of 4th instant has been received. The act of Congress of March 26, 1863, to…
HEADQUARTERS, Petersburg, November 14, 1864. Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: Sir: Brig. Gen. J. G. Martin, who has been on duty at Salisbury for some days, informs me fyom the…
Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., November 9, 1864. Commandant of Conscripts, Enterprise, Miss.: My DEAR Sir: I have received your letter of September 29, and found pleasure in complying with the…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., October 31, 1864. Commanding, &c., Macon, Ga.: GENERAL: I have received your letter of the 22d,* relative to the arrangement made between…
Raleigh Raleigh, October 25, 1864. General HOLMES: DEAR SiR: Major Dowd informs me that you have instructed him that all applications for the detail of hands in factories working for…
Richmond Richmond, October 22, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Sir: Perhaps it may aid to some extent the effort to adjust the confusion in the recruiting and…
SELMA SELMA, October 20, 1864. GENERAL: I have read the letter of the president of Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad and the indorsement thereon of General LTInelnagnrva nat fannd and…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., October 20, 1864. Brig. Gen. A. R. LAWTON, Quartermaster-General : GENERAL: I find that some inconvenience results from the competition of the…
Richmond Richmond, October 18, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Sir: I have the honor to inclose you a copy of a note I have this day addressed…
Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., October 13, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Str: I have the honor to present the following general view of the operations of my…
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, October 11, 1864. October 11, 1864. Respectfully returned to the Honorable Secretary of War. It appears to me that the Quartermaster-General has strangely misapprehended…
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, Richmond, October 18, 1864. His Excellency the PRESIDENT: Mr. PRESIDENT: Your attention is respectfully asked to the inclosed copy of a letter from the…
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE, Richmond, November 5, 1864. Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War in accordance with ne suggestion, with the following draught of the proposed general order: 1. When free…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, October 6, 1864. No. 237. Richmond, October 6, 1864. * * * * * * * III. Col. Thomas 8S. Rhett, Provisional Army,…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, October 5, 1864. No. 76. Richmond, October 5, 1864. I. All details heretofore granted under authority of the War Department to persons between…
ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE, October 2, 1864. (Received 4th.) General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General: The following communication has been received from Governor Clark: The State of Mississippi has to defend…
CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, September 30, 1864. About 260 prisoners, foreigners, at Florence have volunteered for our service. In consultation with General Beauregard I recommend and ask that Maj. Henry Bryan, assistant…
Avuausta Avuausta, September 29, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Sir: The idea may or may not have been presented to you of employing negroes in the Army…
Richmond Richmond, September 23, 1864. Maj. J. B. FERGUSON, , Quartermaster, Manchester, England: Str: I have just written to Mr. Thomas Sharp fully upon the subject of machinery for the…