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46,149 lettersWAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION, June 18, 1864. No. 21. Richmond, Va., June 18, 1864. I. The active campaigns now in progress must cause increased straggling and desertion, as well…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE GULF, Mobile, Ala., April 23, 1864. General SAMUEL COOPER, C. S. Army, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.: GENERAL: I respectfully suggest to the consideration of…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST OREGON CAVALRY, Camp on Dry Creek, May 4, 1863. SIR: I have the honor to report that I left Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., this morning with Companies…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Bowie, Ariz. Ter., April 26, 1863. GENERAL: I have the honor to give you the following account of an affair with the Apache Indians: About 8 o’clock yesterday…
Owens River Valley Owens River Valley, May 26, 1863. Col. R. C. DRUM, U.S. Army, Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : COLONEL: I have the honor to report that the…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, Apru 16, 1864. No. 43. Richmond, Apru 16, 1864. I. By the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ”An act to impose…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Bragg, Cal., May 21, 1863. Sir: I do myself the honor to report that I proceeded on the 3d instant from this post to Shelter Cove on scout…
FORT GASTON FORT GASTON, May 6, 1863. Lieutenant BARTH, LIEUTENANT: Through inadvertence the foregoing copy of entry in our post records was omitted to be inclosed in my communication of…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, June 11, 1863. COLONEL: On the 6th instant a citizen pack train of thirty-seven mules, with a citizen escort of five men, fell into…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, May 29, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that Captain Hull, with twenty men of Company D, Second Infantry California Volunteers, proceeded…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 11, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report the return to Fort Baker of a detachment of thirty-two men of Company A,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., February 6, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that from information received from various sources of the encampment of a…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1863. Adjt. Gen. L. THOMAS, U. 8. Army, Washington, D. C.: SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith the report…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, April 12, 1864. No. 85. if Richmond, April 12, 1864. XXV. Col. W. M. Browne, aide-de-camp, assigned to duty as commandant of…
APPOMATTOX, VA. APPOMATTOX, VA., April 11, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: DEAR SiR: The people of this county are already suffering much for corn, and unless something…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARIMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, November 18, 1862. Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a letter»…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WESTERN ARIZONA, Tucson, Ariz. Ter., September 23, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that Apache Indians stampeded and ran off three public horses of the…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., November 19, 1863. Col. R. F. Maury, First Oregon Cavalry, commanding expedition against the Snake In ians, Fort Dalles, Oreg.: COLONEL: I…
CIRCULAR CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, April 5, 1864. WaAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION, No. 14. Richmond, Va., April 5, 1864. I. Circular No. 13, current series, is hereby revoked. II.…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Walla Walla, August 17, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that I received an express last night from Captain Currey with the reportt herewith inclosed, dated…