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46,149 lettersSaint Louis Saint Louis, September 6, 1864. General Fisk Saint Joseph, Mo.: The general commanding has reliable intelligence that Quantrill with three men crossed to the north side of the…
JEFFERSON CiTy JEFFERSON CiTy, September 6, 1864. Capt. FRANK ENO, Assistant Adjutant-General: No news from General Brown. Lines down between here and Warrensburg. Guerrillas thick up the river about Rocheport.…
Warrensburg Warrensburg, September 6, 1864. Capt. E. P. ELMER, Commanding, Pleasant Hill: Reliable information is received that Todd’s band have broken up into parties of forty or fifty and are…
PAOLA, KAns. PAOLA, KAns., September 6, 1864. Colonel Forp, Kansas Oity, Mo.: I have also heard rumors of a camp on Grand River, in Henry County. I have no scouts…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND SUB-DISTRICT, In the Field, September 6, 1864. Capt. J. H. STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General, District of Central Missouri : CAPTAIN: [have the honor to report that since my report…
OFFICE OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEER, September 6, 1864. September 6, 1864, Capt. James H. STEGER, Assistent Adjutant-General : Srr: I would respectfully report for the information of the general commanding district…
LITTLE Rock, ARK. LITTLE Rock, ARK., September 6, 1864. Maj. Gen. C. C. WASHBURN, Memphis, Tenn.: GENERAL: The rebel cavalry under Fagan, reported from 3,000 to 4,000, with a large…
OFFICE CHIEF OF CAVALRY, DEPT. OF ARKANSAS, September 6, 1864. . Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Brig. Gen. JOHN W. DAVIDSON, Chief of Cav., Mil. Div. of West Miss.,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Tittle Rock, September 6, 1864. Brig. Gen. C. C. ANDREWS, Deval’s Bluff: Please send a guide with Lieutenant O’Reilly to conduct the cavalry division under Colonel…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROOK, Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Brig. Gen. C. BUSSEY, Commanding First Division: GENERAL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you have a sufficient force in…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Lieut. LUKE O’REILLY, Aide-de-Camp, General Mower’s Staff: Please direct the cavalry division under Colonel Winslow to cross at Clarendon and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, &C., Tittle Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Maj. Gen. J. A. MOWER, Commanding First Division, Sixteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: Please bring your division to Devall’s Bluff…
NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, September 6, 1864. COLONEL : The major-general commanding directs that you will sail with the Twenty-third Wisconsin and Ninety-sixth Ohio, so soon as you have taken…
HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, New Orleans, September 6, 1864. Maj. C. T. CHRISTENSEN, Assistant Adjutant-General: Masor : I havethe honor to report that the Twenty-third Wisconsin and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteers…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, September 7, 1864. Respectfully forwarded. The request of Col. 8S. B. Holabird is approved. Early action by the commanding general of the military…
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, DEPT. OF THE GULF, New Orleans, September 6, 1864. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Commanding : GENERAL: The strikes among boiler makers and machinists and the exorbitant…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 6, 1864. Major-General CANBY, New Orleans: GENERAL: Lieutenant-General Grant directs that all the sick and detailed men of the part of the Nineteenth Corps…
Fort Ridgely Fort Ridgely, September 5, 1864. _ CAPTAIN: The orders received with your communication of the Ist instant have been carried into effect, and Company G, Thirtieth Wis- consin,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1864. GENERAL: Your private and official letters by Captain Pope just received. Of course you can leave six companies of Second…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWES7, Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose copy of telegraphic dispatch* sent you this a. m. advising departure to-morrow for…