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46,149 lettersQUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE, January 14, 1865. January 14, 1865, Respectfully returned to Brigadier-General Wessells with information that the requisition referred to within was not received at this office, and with request…
HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH BRIGADE, Columbia, December 19, 1861. Commanding First Division, Lebanon, Ky.: GENERAL:* * * * AsfarasIcan ascertain, there is no certainty that Zollicoffer is on the other side of…
HDQRS. TWELFTH REGIMENT KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS, December 18, 1861. December 18, 1861. GENERAL: To-day I took six of my companies and one section of Captain Hewett’s battery and proceeded in the…
HEADQUARTERS, Somerset, Ky., December 12, 1861. (Received December 16, 1861.) Commanding Division, Lebanon: GENERAL: Having obtained much information relative to the face of the adjacent country, its roads, streams, and…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp ‘Calvert, November 25, 1861. (Received November 29, 1861. ? Commanding, &e., Danville, KEy.: GENERAL: Yours of the 23d instan inclosing orders from department headquarters for…
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S A., Richmond, Va., March 31, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following answers, prepared by my predecessor in office, to the resolutions of…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAT/S OFFICE, August 22, 1862. No. 196. i Richmond, Va., August 22, 1862. * * * * * * * X. L. The reports of…
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. CLARKSVILLE, TENN., February 19, 1862. General JOHNSTON: 4 Sir: There is but little known satisfactorily of the enemy or their movements; up to 10 o’elock last night all…
HDQRS. FORTY-FOURTH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, Fort Henry, February 18, 1862. SIR: On the morning of Saturday, February 15, the Forty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers left their bivouac near the enemy’s lines…
DIVISION HEADQUARTERS, Gainesborough, Tenn., January 29, 1862. SIR: I would most respectfully state that on the morning of the 19th of this month, at 12 o’clock, I moved from our…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are…
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Mill Springs, Ky., December 9, 1861. SIR: Having been disappointed in having ferry-boats captured by the force sent on in advance with that object, I have had to…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Port Royal, S. C., March 25, 1862. To the ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington, D. O.: SIR: Since my letter of the 9th instant, on learning that…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Port Royal, S. C., March 9, 1862. To the ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington, D. C. : SrR: From the reports of Brigadier-General Wright, copies of which…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Off Tybee, Ga., February 27, 1862. The ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington, D. O.: Sin: It was my intention to accompany the expedition for Fernandina, and while…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF PORT ROYAL, December 9, 1861. Beaufort, S. 0., December 9, 1861. GENERAL: I have received information that since my visit to Port Royal Ferry yesterday the Confederates…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 13, 1862. GENERAL: Your letters of the 10th and 12th instant were received this evening, through Mr. Boutelle, U. S. Coast Survey,…
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, January 5, 1862. Pocotaligo, S. 0., January 5, 1862. GENERAL: I refer you to the inclosed report of Col. James J ones, of the Fourteenth Regiment South Carolina…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE E. O., January 3, 1862. Beaufort, S. 0., January 3, 1862. DEAR SIR: I desire to express my great confidence in your code of signals from my…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE E. O., January 3, 1862. Beaufort, S. 0., January 3, 1862. GENERAL : I have the honor to report that, agreeably to your instructions, I accompanied the…