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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, March 6, 1861. Capt. ©. S. LOVELL, Sixth Infantry, Commanding Fort Humboldt, Cal. : SIR: The commanding general directs you to send Lieutenant…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, March 4, 1861. No. 25. J San Francisco, March 4, 1861. Companies A and B, Third Artillery, will take post at the…
TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 28, 1861. Hon. J. HOLT, Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of A. S. Johnston, brevet…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 22, 1861. Capt. G. E. PICKETT, Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army, Commanding on the Island of San Juan, Wash. Ter.: CAPTAIN: The…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1861. Capt. J. S. ELLIS, Commanding California Guard, San Francisco, CAL. : DEAR SIR: The fort at Fort Point having lately…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1861. COLONEL: In obedience to the orders of the General-in-Chief received here on the 15th instant, Fort Point was occupied by…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 18, 1861. Lieut. Col. C. S. MERCHANT, Third Artillery, Commanding Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: Brigadier-General Johnston directs me to say…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, New York, March 18, 1861. Respectfully submitted to the General-in-Chief. The reply of General Johnston to Captain Spencer has not been received at Army headquarters.tLieutenant-Colonel and…
ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS, February 9, 1861. No. 5. Fort Dalles, Oreg., February 9, 1861. I. Captain Whittlesey, First Dragoons, with twenty-nine men of his company, mounted and equipped for the field,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., January 26, 1861. SIR: Your letter of the 15th instant, inclosing Orders, No. 1, from the headquarters Department of the Pacific, reached…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, January 15, 1861. Col. G. WRIGHT, Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army, COLONEL: By direction of Brigadier-General Johnston I transmit the order* by which…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Bowie, Apache Pass, Ariz. Ter., July 6, 1865. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that on the 26th of June at 7 p.m. I left this post…
HEADQUARTERS SUB-DISTRICT OF NEVADA, Fort Churchill, May 9, 1865. LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report for the information of the general commanding that settlers at Carson Lake and also…
HEADQUARTERS CANYON CITY ROAD EXPEDITION, Camp Watson, Oreg., January 17, 1865. GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you of a scout made to Cottonwood Creek, on Canyon City road.…
HEADQUARTERS, September 28, 1864. Fort Boisé, Idaho Ter., September 28, 1864. SIR: Nothing direct has been received from Lieutenant Hobart’s command since my advices of the 23d instant. Reports have,…
[Inclosure.] July 25, 1864. July 25, 1864, detachment of Company D left Camp Johns, near Susanville, Cal., at 6 a. m. (Lieutenant Littlefield in command) for Unionville, on the Humboldt…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Craig, N. Mex., September 14, 1864. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report for the information of the department commander that pursuant to instructions and department General Orders,…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION INTO THE INDIAN COUNTRY, October 26, 1864. Camp No. 115, October 26, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to report for the information of the general commanding the…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION INTO THE INDIAN COUNTRY, June 8, 1864. Camp on Gibbs’ Creek, 100 miles above the mouth of the Owyhee River, June 8, 1864. SIR: I have the honor…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION INTO THE INDIAN COUNTRY, May 3, 1864. Camp No. 6, on Grande Ronde River, May 3, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to inform you that I reached…