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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, June 11, 1863. COLONEL: On the 6th instant a citizen pack train of thirty-seven mules, with a citizen escort of five men, fell into…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, May 29, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that Captain Hull, with twenty men of Company D, Second Infantry California Volunteers, proceeded…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, April 11, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report the return to Fort Baker of a detachment of thirty-two men of Company A,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., February 6, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that from information received from various sources of the encampment of a…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, February 20, 1863. Adjt. Gen. L. THOMAS, U. 8. Army, Washington, D. C.: SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith the report…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, April 12, 1864. No. 85. if Richmond, April 12, 1864. XXV. Col. W. M. Browne, aide-de-camp, assigned to duty as commandant of…
APPOMATTOX, VA. APPOMATTOX, VA., April 11, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: DEAR SiR: The people of this county are already suffering much for corn, and unless something…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARIMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, November 18, 1862. Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a letter»…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WESTERN ARIZONA, Tucson, Ariz. Ter., September 23, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that Apache Indians stampeded and ran off three public horses of the…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., November 19, 1863. Col. R. F. Maury, First Oregon Cavalry, commanding expedition against the Snake In ians, Fort Dalles, Oreg.: COLONEL: I…
CIRCULAR CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, April 5, 1864. WaAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF CONSCRIPTION, No. 14. Richmond, Va., April 5, 1864. I. Circular No. 13, current series, is hereby revoked. II.…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Walla Walla, August 17, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that I received an express last night from Captain Currey with the reportt herewith inclosed, dated…
ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS, August 16, 1862. No. 170. $ Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., August 16, 1862. I. Lieut. J. T. Apperson, Company E, First Oregon Cavalry, with fifteen men…
UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION, August 4, 1862. Col. J. STEINBERGER, U. S. Army, Commanding Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.: COLONEL: I have respectfully to request that you will…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., August 26, 1862. SIR: I herewith transmit for the information of the general commanding the department a copy of the report, dated…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., October 6, 1863. GENERAL: I have the honor to report for the information of the War Department the operations of the troops…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 29, 1864. No. 40. Richmond, March 29, 1864. I. The enlistment of deserters is a serious evil in the service. The attention…
HEADQUARTERS OWEN’S RIVER EXPEDITION, Camp Independence, Owen’s River Valley, July 9, 1862. MAJOR: I have the honor to report to the general commanding the Department of the Pacific that […
HEADQUARTERS OWEN’S RIVER EXPEDITION, Camp Independence, Oak Creek, Owews River Valley, July 5, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report to the colonel commanding at Camp Latham that I…
HEADQUARTERS FORT BOWIE, Apache Pass, Ariz. Ter., August 9, 1862. LIEUTENANT: I avail myself of the kindness of Captain McCleave, First Cavalry California Volunteers, to send report of affairs at…