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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS CONSCRIPT SERVICE, Austin, July 22, 1863. Capt. EDMUND P. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General: Sir: Mention has been made in communications from the commandant of conscripts to the commanding general of…
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A,, Ordnance Office, Richmond, July 22, 1863. Lieut. Gen. E. KIRBY SMITH, Commanding Trans-Mississippt Department : GENERAL: It has been concluded to send one of the…
Rusk, Cherokee County Rusk, Cherokee County, July 20, 1863. Brig. Gen. H. P. BEE, Commanding Westeyn Sub-District, Brownsville: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication…
Brashear City Brashear City, July 17, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MAGRUDER, Commanding District of Texas, New Mexico, &e.: GENERAL: I avail myself of the services of Colonel Robertson, volunteer…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, Fort Brown, Tex., July 16, 1863. Capt. E..P. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General, Houston, Tex. : Srr: I have the honor to report my arrival at this place on…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 16, 1863. GENERAL: You are hereby directed to remain at Grand Ecore with your brigade until further orders from these headquarters. You will endeavor…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Mobile, Ala., July 16, 1863. General 8S. CoopmrR, Adjt. and Insp. Gen. C. 8. Army, Richmond, Va.: GENERAL: Please ask the Secretary of War to…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENF OF THE GULF, Mobile, Ala., July 16, 1863. General S. CooPER, Adjutant and Inspector General, C. S. Army: GENERAL: After the fall of Port Hudson, the army of…
Berwick Berwick, July 14, 1863. Maj. E. SURGE, Assistant Adjutant-General : MAgsor: Your dispatches of the 10th and 11th came to hand. I had received from New Orleans uews of…
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,, Richmond, July 14, 1863. General E. KtrBy SMITH, Commanding, de.: GENERAL: The Secretary of the Navy has made application to this Department for the use…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT, &C., Galveston, Tex., July 12, 1863. Brigadier-General BEE, Commanding First Division: Sir: Your communications received. In reply, I am instructed by Major-General Magruder to say that your General…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 12, 1863. Maj. Gen. RICHARD TAYLOR, Commanding, &e.: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your report of the 4th instant.…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 11, 1863. GENERAL: I have received your communication from Delhi, announeing the reported fall of Vicksburg. Should this report be confirmed, Grant’s army will…
HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN SUB-DISTRICT, Bonham, Tex., July 9, 1863. Capt. EpMUND P. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General, Houston, Tex.: CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report my arrival at this place on the…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, Corpus Christi, July 9, 1863. Capt. EpMUND P. TURNER, Assistant Adjutant-General, Houston, Tea. : Srr: The communications of July up to the 4th, inclusive, from your headquarters…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 9, 1863. GENERAL: I have: just returned from Monroe, and find your letters of the 27th ultimo. I congratulate you most cordially upon your…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, En route to Shreveport, La., July 7, 1863. GENERAL: You will forward to Major-General Walker instructions from Lieutenant-General Smith that, though he regards the news of doubtful…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 5, 1863. Major McKEr, Assistant Quartermaster, Alexandria, La. : MAJor: You will turn over to Major Bloomfield, quartermaster, Houston, Tex., as much Governwent cotton…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 5, 1863. General [MAGRUDER]: I have the honor to inclose copies of orders sent to Major McKee; also copies of telegrams from Lieutenant-Generals Smith…
GENERAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI, July 4, 1863. No. 24. i Shreveport, La., July 4, 1863. I. In obedience to General Orders, No. 70, Paragraph II, Section…