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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp, Bolivar Springs, August 24, 1863. Brig. Gen. J. A. GARFIELD, Chief of Staff: I have the honor to report that all orders in_relation to cutting…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bolwar, Ala., August 24, 1863. General REYNOLDS: The commanding general directs that you make details from the Third Division to cut down the banks and improve…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, August 24, 1863. August 24, 1863. Colonel SIMMONS, Commissary of Subsistence, Nashville : The general commanding directs me to say that you reported to him…
Union City Union City, August 24, 1863. Captain Hoven, Assistant Adjutant-General : I have the honor to report that on the evening of the 23d instant I received satisfactory information…
SHERMAN’S HEADQUARTERS, August 24, 1863. August 24, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel RAWLINS: When General Steele left this command he took with him two companies of cavalry, attached to the First Division. No…
HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Memphis, Tenn., September 9, 1863. Respectfully referred to Brig. Gen. J. D. Webster, superintendent of military railroads, Department of the Tennessee. By order of Major-General Hurlbut…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Vicksburg, Miss., September 2, 1863. Respectfully referred to Major-General Hurlbut, who will please answer General Rosecrans if there are any locomotives in his command that…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, Lexington, Ky., August 23, 1863. CoLONEL : The general commanding corps requests that you will please inform these headquarters of the whereabouts of the different regiments…
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF OF CAVALRY, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Col. C. GopDARD, Assistant Adjutant-General : The general commanding directs me to say to you that he ordered the battalion stationed at…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Maj. Gen. D. S. STANLEY, Chief of Cavalry: GENERAL: A dispatch from Captain Johnson, assistant quartermaster, at Decherd, says that rebels…
STEVENSON STEVENSON, August 23, 1863. Maj. Gen. GORDON GRANGER, Nashville : I have directed the commanding officer at McMinnville to guard the railroad to Manchester. You must guard it from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Major-General CRITTENDEN, Dunlap: Your dispatches received. All you have done approved of. There are 20,000 rations at Tracy City, and more…
Pikeville Pikeville, August 23, 1863. Lieut. Col. LYNE STARLING, Dunlap : Your dispatch by signal received. Colonel Minty fell back toward Poe’s on his own responsibility, not by my order,…
Dunlap Dunlap, August 23, 1863. General VAN CLEVE, Pikeville : Minty’s dispatch received. If he has fallen back in direction of Poe’s Tavern on your orders or without orders, he…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bolivar, August 23, 1863. Maj. F. 8. Bonp, Aide-de-Camp: What pioneers do you have reference to in constructing the bridges and flat-boats at Jasper ? Very…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, August 23, 1863. August 23, 1863—8.15 p.m. (Received 8.25 p. m.) General THomas, Commanding Fourteenth Army Corps: The general commanding directs that you send a…
Camp, Bolivar Springs Camp, Bolivar Springs, August 23, 1863. General REYNOLDS, Commanding Fourth Division : You are directed by the general commanding to supply Wilder’s battery with such ammunition as…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp, Bolivar Springs, August 23, 1863. Major-General REYNOLDs, Commanding Fourth Division: Telegram in regard to cavalry received. The general suggests that you use the two companies…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp, Boiivar Springs, August 23, 1863. Major-General REYNOLDs, Jasper: Colonel Wilder’s report was received to-day. A communication was sent directing you to supply Wilder a ammunition,…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Camp, Bolivar Springs, August 24, 1863. Lieutenant BURTON, Signal Officer, Bridgeport: Respectfully forwarded, with the request that General Reynolds’ application may be granted. GEO. H. THOMAS,…