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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, U. S. VOLUNTEERS, Columbus, Ky., January 5, 1863. Major-General ‘ URTIS, Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: GENERAL: have my entire command in readiness to ship…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, January 5, 1863. January 5, 1863. Brigadier-General GORMAN, Commanding Helena : GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that no troops have been halted at…
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRIOT, Saint Louis, January 5, 1863. A. A. G., Hdgrs. Dept. of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: Sig: From all I can learn, I believe that the…
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 5, 1863. My Dear Sir: I am having a good deal of trouble with Missouri matters, and I now set down to write you particularly about…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, Helena, January 3, 1863. Major-General CURTIS, Commanding Department of Missouri, Saint Louis : GENERAL: Yours of December 29, 1862, was received by the hands of…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE FRONTIER, Fayetteville, January 3, 1863. Maj. Gen. SAMUEL R. CURTIS, Commanding Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: GENERAL: cannot suppress a feeling of surprise and…
Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Mo., January 3, 1863. General Grant has ordered all my force now at Columbus to Memphis. This strips the country about Cairo and New Madrid,…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, January 2, 1863. Col. N. P. CoipMAN, Helena : DEAR COLONEL: Happy New Year to you and the general. I wrote the general before noon, but…
Oolumbus, Ky. Oolumbus, Ky., January 2, 1863. Maj. Gen. SAMUEL R. CURTIS, Commanding Department of the Missouri: GENERAL: General Osterhaus, en route for his command, passed here last evening. [From…
FAYETTEVILLE FAYETTEVILLE, January 2, 1863. Hon. JOHN S. PHELPS, Military Governor of Arkansas, Saint Louis: I respectfully suggest the propriety of organizing the militia of this part of the State,…
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 2, 1863. Major-General CURTIS: My Deak Sir: Yours of December 29, by the hand of Mr. Strong, is just received. The day telegraphed you suspending the…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, January 1, 1863. Col. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. O.: I ave the honor to send herewith copy of my reply * to Major-General…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY BRIGADE, January 7, 1863. January 7, 1863. Respectfully forwarded. The force which Major C. encountered at Elk Run is all that remains of Hampton’s Legion (his old…
HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT, New Market, Va., January 6, 1863. GENERAL: On the 2d instant—with the available force of the Sixth, Seventh, and Twelfth Regiments Virginia Cavalry, the Seventeenth Battalion Virginia…
HEADQUARTERS, Moorefield, W. Va., January 5, 1863—3 p. m.. Srz: McNeill’s cavalry this morning attacked, 4 miles distant, a small] wagon train of Milroy’s, guarded by a platoon of Rowan’s…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS, Baltimore, January 4, 1863. GENERAL: Late last night I reeeived the following further telegram from General Kelley at Harper’s.Ferry : A dis aot ue received from…
HEADQUARTERS LEE’S CAVALRY BRIGADE, January 4, 1863. January 4, 1863. GENERAL: I have the honor to forward a report of the part taken by iny brigade in your late reconnaissance…
HEADQUARTERS LEE’S CAVALRY BRIGADE, Near Fredericksburg, Va., January 5, 1863. Sir: In compliance with instructions from Major-General Stuart, I submit the following report of recent operations of my command: Left…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY, December 27, 1862. December 27, 1862. DEAR Sig: It seems there has been some mistake in the disposition of our cavalry forces. You will please return…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY, December 27, 1862. December 27, 1862. Lieutenant Seltzer will immediately report to me, at Garrisonville, with the 50 men last sent out with Colonel Schimmelfennig. By…