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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FOROES, Gallatin, November 14, 1862. Colonel KENNETT, Commanding Cavalry, Hartsville : COLONEL: Your dispatch has just come to hand. I will forward it immediately to the general…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 14, 1862. November 14, 1862—1 p. m. Col. JOHN KENNETT, Commanding Cavalry Division : COLONEL: The general directs me to inform you that he has…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 14, 1862. November 14, 1862—11 a. m. Colonel KENNETT, Commanding Cavalry Division : COLONEL: Your three dispatches in relation to the occupation of Lebanon are…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, Hartsville, November 14, 1862—6 a. m.. General THOMAS: We are ordered to leave for Lebanon. We cannot do it until the regiment of infantry ordered here,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Nashville, November 14, 1862. Major-General THomAs, Gallatin : If you have not communication with Crittenden, open it rapidly. Rumors from that direction. Answer immediately. By…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 14, 1862. I wish you would select the best locality in your neighborhood for covering that angle of the railroad by a regiment—the headquarters…
HEADQUARTERS, Gallatin, November 14, 1862. Major-General ROSECRANS: A dispatch from Colonel Kennett, just received, states that one of his scouts had just returned from Lebanon, and tells him that Morgan…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Silver Springs, November 14, 1862. Major-General THOMAS, Commanding Center: GENERAL: The inclosed note has been this moment received. As I had been ordered to send Colonel…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 14, 1862. November 14, 1862—10 a. m. COLONEL: I send down this morning, under the escort of the Twentysixth Kentucky Regiment, numbering about 200 men,…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 13, 1862. No. 13. Nashville, Tenn., November 13, 1862. I. Lieut. Col. Julius P. Garesché, assistant adjutant-general, having reported for duty, is announced as chief…
GALLATIN GALLATIN, November 13, 1862. General ROSECRANS: Have not been able to see Mr. Anderson yet. Went to the tunnel this morning; northern tunnel clear; south tunnel, General Steedman thinks,…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 13, 1862. Major-General THomAS, Gallatin : Send one regiment of infantry and one section of artillery to Colonel Kennett, at Hartsville. Is the Michigan…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 13, 1862. Major-General THOMAS, Gallatin: Order Rousseau forward to Edgefield Junction, relieving all troops on the road, and clearing out all detachments to their…
Gallatin, Tenn. Gallatin, Tenn., November 13, 1862. Colonel KENNETT: We sent your dispatch to Major-General Thomas, and this is the re ply: ‘Major-General Orittenden’s position is unknown to us.” E.…
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES, Gallatin, November 13, 1862. Colonel KENNETT: CoLONEL: I understand that Lebanon is held by our troops, and that a portion of Crittenden’s forces have passed through,…
Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn., November 13, 1862. Lieut. Col. ARTHUR C. Duoat, Acting Chief of Staff: Sir: General Rosecrans proposed an expedition to La Vergne, and requested reliable information as…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 12, 1862. Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: The general commanding directs me to state that Col. S. D. Bruce has been sent with seventeen companies…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 12, 1862. No. 12. Nashwille, Tenn., November 12, 1862. I. In establishing courier lines, a commissioned officer must be placed in charge of each line,…
NASHVILLE, TENN. NASHVILLE, TENN., November 11, 1862. Maj. Gen. GEoRGE H. THomas, Oommanding Center : GENERAL : I dispatched you this a. m. to send one of Rousseau’s brigades to…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Nashville, November 11, 1862. Major-General HALLECK, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: Later information than my last, apparently authentic, gives Breckinridge, with three batteries, at Murfreesborough, eight guns…