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46,149 lettersLitTLE Rock, ARK. LitTLE Rock, ARK., September 2, 1864. Brig. Gen. J. R. WEST, Commanding Cavalry Hapedition: The general commanding directs me to say that the expedition up the river…
Devalls Bluff Devalls Bluff, September 2, 1864. Colonel WARD, Commanding Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry : You will hold your command in readiness to march at a moment’s notice with five days’…
Devalls Bluff Devalls Bluff, September 2, 1864. Major ENSIGN, Commanding Third Brigade : You will furnish from your command, to report to Colonel Graves on board steamer Nevada, at 2…
Devalls Bluff Devalls Bluff, September 2, 1864. Commanding First Brigade: COLONEL: Agreeable to the verbal instructions given you this afternoon by the brigadier-general commanding, you will again move up White…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK, Little Rock, Ark., September 2, 1864. General ANDREWS, Devall’s Bluff: General Steele will request the gun-boat to go up the river again. If it goes,…
LITTLE Rock LITTLE Rock, September 2, 1864. General West was pushing for Grand Glaize when last heard from. He expected to meet Graves there and pursue Shelby, who was to…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Little Rock, Ark., September 2, 1864. COMMANDING OFFICER 113TH REGIMENT U.S. COLORED INFANTRY: Sir: The general commanding directs that you act with your command…
Little Rock, Ark. Little Rock, Ark., September 2, 1864. LIEUTENANT: You will proceed at once to move your battery to the redoubt known as Fort Rice and take position therein.…
Tittle Rock, Ark. Tittle Rock, Ark., September 2, 1864. Col. J. F. RITTER, Commanding Third Brigade, &ec.: Sir: You will order all the available cavalry of your command to the…
LITTLE Rock LITTLE Rock, September 2, 1864. Capt. J. R. GRACE: CaprTain: I have ordered several expeditions fitted out against Shelby. Nothing has been accomplished yet. General West is probably…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, September 2, 1864. No. 53. } Morganza, La., September 2, 1864. * * * * * * * VII. The Second Division, Nineteenth Corps,…
NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, September 2, 1864. Maj. J. R. PARSONS, Donaldsonville, La. : The major-general commanding the Nineteenth Army Corps directs that you will embark so much of your…
THIBODEAUX THIBODEAUX, September 2, 1864. (Received 11.25 a. m.) Maj. GEORGE B. DRAKE, Assistant Adjutant-General : Colonel Harris, in a letter dated yesterday, says that colored persons just in report…
Saint Paul, Minn. Saint Paul, Minn., September 1, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to state that official dispatches report the murder by twenty-one Sioux Indians of two men outright…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 1, 1864. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to…
Paola Paola, September 1, 1864. Capt. HENRY PEARCE, Company C, Eleventh Kans. Vol. Cav., Coldwater Grove, Kans. : OAPTAIN: Lieut. Col. P. B. Plumb hzs made the following change in…
SAInT JOSEPH SAInT JOSEPH, September 1, 1864. Capt. FRANK ENO, Assistant Adjutant-General: I am concentrating the First lowa Cavalry Volunteers at Mexico to await orders from department headquarters. G. B:FISK,…
WARRENSBURG WARRENSBURG, September 1, 1864. Capt. M. BuRRIS, Lexington: Hold your mounted force in readiness to move, with ten days’ rations, at a moment’s notice. Acknowledge receipt. By order: J.…
LEXINGTON LEXINGTON, September 1, 1864. Capt. J. H. STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General: Sir: Company F, First Missouri State Militia Cavalry, is at Marshall, without rations. Their rations arehere. Colonel Lazear ordered…
LEXINGTON LEXINGTON, September 1, 1864. Capt. J. H. STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General : Major Suess is below Lexington. Expected here this or to-morrow evening. M. BURRIS, Captain, Commanding.