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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 13, 1862. Major-General THOMAS, Gallatin: Order Rousseau forward to Edgefield Junction, relieving all troops on the road, and clearing out all detachments to their…
Gallatin, Tenn. Gallatin, Tenn., November 13, 1862. Colonel KENNETT: We sent your dispatch to Major-General Thomas, and this is the re ply: ‘Major-General Orittenden’s position is unknown to us.” E.…
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES, Gallatin, November 13, 1862. Colonel KENNETT: CoLONEL: I understand that Lebanon is held by our troops, and that a portion of Crittenden’s forces have passed through,…
Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn., November 13, 1862. Lieut. Col. ARTHUR C. Duoat, Acting Chief of Staff: Sir: General Rosecrans proposed an expedition to La Vergne, and requested reliable information as…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 12, 1862. Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: The general commanding directs me to state that Col. S. D. Bruce has been sent with seventeen companies…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 12, 1862. No. 12. Nashwille, Tenn., November 12, 1862. I. In establishing courier lines, a commissioned officer must be placed in charge of each line,…
NASHVILLE, TENN. NASHVILLE, TENN., November 11, 1862. Maj. Gen. GEoRGE H. THomas, Oommanding Center : GENERAL : I dispatched you this a. m. to send one of Rousseau’s brigades to…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Nashville, November 11, 1862. Major-General HALLECK, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: Later information than my last, apparently authentic, gives Breckinridge, with three batteries, at Murfreesborough, eight guns…
Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio, November 10, 1862. Maj. Gen. W. S. ROSECRANS, Bowling Green, Ky.: I have been informed that the cavalry at Lebanon has been ordered to join General…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, Near Gallatin, November 9, 1862—5 p. m.. COLONEL: Colonel Kennett reported to me in person this morning. I at once ordered him to send a battalion…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, November 9, 1862. November 9, 1862. Maj. Gen. A. MoD. MoCoox, Commanding at Nashville : GENERAL: I am encamped, with two divisions, Van Cleve’s and Wood’s,…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Major-General McCook, Nashville (via telegraph to Mitchellsville, and courier lines) : Forty thousand rations will be at Mitchellsville to-morrow. The general…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—9 p. m. Major-General McCook, Nashville : General Crittenden camps on the Cumberland to-night. You must send him 50,000 rations (assorted) as…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Major-General McCook, Nashville : Send all your available railroad force to work on bridges from Nash ville to tunnel. If you…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—10 p. m.. Major-General CRITTENDEN, Gallatin : Fifty thousand rations have been sent to Fountain Head for the use of your army.…
‘HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—10 p. m.. Communication and dispatch of 12 m. received. Have instructed General McCook to send you 50,000 assorted rations as soon…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, Ky., November 8, 1862. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLEOK, General-in-Chief : I have considerable cavalry in much confusion for want of a head. I…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: I respectfully request that Capt. A. E. Strickle, commissary of sub sistence, be ordered…
Bowling Green Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Col. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. O.: COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit, for the information of the General-in-Chief, the…
Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1862. General Boyle telegraphed yesterday that he has information of large train of rebel wagons entering Whitley County from Tennessee to forage on Oumberland…