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46,149 lettersORDERS, HEADQUARTERS MILITARY: COMMANDER, July 10, 1864. No. 111. Wilmington, Del., July 10, 1864. I. Under instructions from the general commanding First Lieut. James Lewis, Veteran Reserve Corps, with as…
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY COMMANDER, Wilmington, Del., July 17, 1864. [Lieut. Col. SamurL B. LAWRENCE :] DEAR COLONEL: After the most unremitting labors by night and day in raising troops for the…
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY COMMANDER, Wilmington, Del., July 16, 1864. Sr: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this command since the 9th instant: In obedience…
HEADQUARTERS FORT WORTHINGTON, July 20, 1864. CaprTalIn : I have the honor to submit the following report of my command at the battle of the Monocacy : My two companies,…
HEADQUARTERS 138TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, September 10, 1864. September 10, 1864. LIEUTENANT: + At midnight June 12 the march from Cold Harbor was commenced, and on the following day continued beyond…
HEADQUARTERS, Ellicott’s Mills, July 10, 1864. : have the honor to report that I have reached this point with my column. As I telegraphed you on the evening of the…
HEADQUARTERS SIxTtH ARMY Corrs HEADQUARTERS SIxTtH ARMY Corrs, July 12, 1864. Lieut. Col. J. H. TAYLor, Chief of Staff, &c., Department of Washington : I have the honor to transmit…
HEADQUARTERS, Cumberland, Md., September 17, 1864. I have the honor to submit the following report of operations in my command at Cumberland, Md., and New Creek, W. Va., and vicinity…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, July 6, 1864. GENERAL: Your dispatch* of this p. m. received. General Stahel’s cavalry has been used to operate against the forces of the enemy that attempted…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, Maryland Heights, July 5, 1864—11 p. m.. (Received 10.15 a. m. July 6.) A part of the enemy’s cavalry is this evening at Boonsborough and on this…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, Maryland Heights, July 5, 1864—6 a. m.. (Via Frederick, Md. Received 3.25 p. m.) Before my troops arrived at Harper’s Ferry, General Weber at 6.30 p. m.…
HEADQUARTERS, Shepherdstown, W. Va., July 3, 1864. (Received 6.30 a. m. July 4.) At 6 o’clock this morning the enemy attacked our forces at Leetown and Darkesville, on the Winchester…
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE, Near Falls Church, Va., June 25, 1864—11 a. m.. CoLoNEL Major Forbes has just returned from Centreville, and I am able to send a clearer account of…
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE, Near Falls Church, Va., June 24, 1864. Cotonztt: I have the honor to report that a patrol from the camp of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry, consisting…
HEADQUARTERS, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., June 10, 1864. Information has just been received from Colonel”Thompson, commanding the scouting party just sent to Duffield’s, that a detachment of cavalry from Duffield’s…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, Martinsburg, Va., June 2, 1864. Respectfully forwarded to department headquarters. This report was called for immediately on the return of Lieutenant-Colonel Root, Fifteenth New York Cavalry, but…
HEADQUARTERS, Staunton, Va., June 17, 1864. GENERAL: Pursuant to your telegram of the 3d instant, I took command of this post on the 4th. A few hours after doing so…
HEADQUARTERS POST, Staunton, June 15, 1864. Masor: Your note of the 13th reached me yesterday by return courier. It states ‘”‘McNeill and Gilmor are in the Valley below.” Major Gilmor…
SIGNAL OFFICER OF THE ARMY, March 1, 1864. Washington City, D. C.: COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit herewith report of the operations of the signal detachment of West…
HEADQUARTERS, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., May 24, 1864. One of my scouting parties had a fight with some of Mosby’s men this afternoon near Charlestown. A scouting party from Duffield’s…