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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 20, 1863. Maj. Gen. GEoRGE H. THomas, Commanding Fourteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: The general commanding directs you to instruct General Reynolds to reconnoiter…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 20, 1863. Col. WILLIAM P. INNES, Military Superintendent of Railroads, Nashville, Tenn. : CoLoNEL: Your communication of 18th instant is at hand. The…
CorintuH CorintuH, August 20, 1863. Maj. Gen. S. A. HURLBUT, Convmanding Sixteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Special Orders, No. 39, headquarters Cavalry Division,…
Louisa Louisa, August 19, 1863. Maj. Gen. A. E. BURNSIDE, Crab Orchard: GENERAL: There has been no move as reported. A few scattering bands have come through Pound Gap. They…
CRAB ORCHARD CRAB ORCHARD, August 19, 1863. General ROSECRANS: An order has been received at General Boyle’s headquarters directing him to send away all of the orderlies at his headquarters.…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 19, 1863. Brigadier-General Boyt, Louisville : The demand for the use of contrabands far exceeds the supply. I am obliged to defer some…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 19, 1863. Brig. Gen. A. C. GILLEM, Nashville : The general commanding wishes you to get all the negroes you can and notify…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 19, 1863. Maj. Gen. GORDON GRANGER, Nashville : The second wire has been ordered, and will be put up as soon as the…
Pikeville, Tenn. Pikeville, Tenn., August 19, 1863. Lieut. Col. LYNE STARLING, Chief of Staff, Twenty-first Army Corps: CoLONEL: I reached this place at 11 a. m. to-day, and delayed writing…
HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIRST ARMY CORPS, Dunlap, August 19, 1863—38 p. m.. Brigadier-General GARFIELD, Chief of Staff : My advance reached here at 1 o’clock p.m. I met Wilder, who had just…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 19, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. J. REYNOLDS, Battle Creek, East Side: Your dispatch to Colonel,Flynt received. General Thomas probably left Decherd yesterday, and…
Camp at Tracy City, Tenn. Camp at Tracy City, Tenn., August 19, 1863. Maj. JoHN LEVERING, A. A. G., Hdqrs. Fourth Div., Fourteenth Army Corps: Sir: I have the honor…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Mouth of Little Crow Creek, August 19, 1863. Major-General ROSECRANS. Commanding Department: I have the honor to report the First Division of my corps at Anderson…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, Columbus, Ky., August 19, 1863. Col. GEORGE E. WARING, Jr., Commanding at Union City: CoLoNEL : It is reported to the general commanding district that a…
Moscow Moscow, August 19, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel BINMORE, Assistant Adjutant-General : The Sixty-second Regiment has just reached here. We start at 3 o’clock to-morrow morning, but I think we cannot reach…
LA GRANGE LA GRANGE, August 19, 1863. Lieut. Col. Hz=nry BINMORE, Assistant Adjutant-General : Have heard nothing from the cavalry expedition ee J. K. MIZNER, Colonel, Commanding. CoRINTH, August 19,…
Newport, R. I. Newport, R. I., August 19, 1863. Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding Department of the Tennessee: GENERAL: The President extended my leave of absence to the 1st…
CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, August 18, 1863. Colonel DE CouRcy, The general commanding the department directs that you proceed at once with your brigade to Crab Orchard. JNO. G. PARKE, Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS CAMP, Stanford, August 18, 1863. I learn that the Ninth Corps have been committing some irregularities in Covington. You will of course give the necessary orders to stop it…
HEADQUARTERS, Crab Orchard, Ky., August 18, 1863. Major-General ROSECRANS: We have had a serious delay in mounting the cavalry and accumulating forage and subsistence, but all the columns are in…