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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, June 28, 1862. June 28, 1862. Col. J. ©. KELTON, : Assistant Adjutant-General, Corinth, Miss. : Eight prisoners have arrived from Asboth. Six deserters from…
Moscow Moscow, June 27, 1862. General HALLECK: The country is full of vague rumors, but our pickets and sentinels discover no traces of an enemy. One rumor says that Rosecrans…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, June 27, 1862. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Commanding Department of the Mississippi : GENERAL: Between Jackson’s and M. Jeff. Thompson’s forces, with the…
Moscow Moscow, June 26, 1862. General HALLEOK : On receiving your dispatch to re-enforce Hurlbut I moved my division to Moscow, where I can move promptly to the Junction or…
Moscow Moscow, June 26, 1862. General HALLEOK : I now have an operator here and communicate more to let you know that fact. My division is here; Hurlbut at La…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, June 26, 1862. June 26, 1862. Major-General THomAsS, Corinth, Miss. : Your dispatch just received. Have ordered all the cavalry we have south and west…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVES, Jackson, June 26, 1862. Colonel SANDERSON, Commanding Post at Bolivar : COLONEL: Three regiments will move by rail from this place to Grand Junction and Moscow to-day. Their…
MEMPHIS, TENN. MEMPHIS, TENN., June 26, 1862. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Commanding Department of the Mississippi : GENERAL: News has just reached me, or reached me during the night,…
MEMPHIS MEMPHIS, June 26, 1862. General HALLECK: There is a reported cut in railroad west of Germantown. Wires now down for two days, with small bodies rebel cavalry through the…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, June 26, 1862. June 26, 1862. General AsBOTU, Rienzi, Miss. : The left. wing of this army is ordered to proceed on the Holly Springs…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, June 26, 1862. June 26, 1862. General ASBOTH : The general commanding directs that you send a regiment of infantry and battery of artillery on…
CORINTH CORINTH, June 26, 1862. General ROSECRANS : Send two additional divisions on the road toward Holly Springs via Ripley. Hurlbut reports that Price, Van Dorn, and Breckinridge are at…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Corinth, Miss., June 26, 1862. Brigadier-General ROSECRANS, Commanding Army of the Mississippi: GENERAL: General Hurlbut reported last night that the enemy was moving against him…
ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, June 25, 1862. No. 46. La Fayette, June 25, 1862. The division will move to-morrow morning to Moscow.. General Morgan L. Smith’s brigade, in advance,…
LA GRANGE LA GRANGE, June 25, 1862. General HALLEOK, Corinth: All bridges done except the one at Moscow, which is promised to be ready for the passage of cars to-day.…
HEADQUARTERS FouRTH DIVISION HEADQUARTERS FouRTH DIVISION, June 25, 1862. Major Ricker reports the enemy advancing on him in force, how great he cannot say. His outside pickets are driven in.…
HEADQUARTERS DISLRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, June 24, 1862. Brig. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT, Commanding Fourth Division, Army of the Tennessee: Iam directed by Major-General Grant to say to you…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, Memphis, Tenn., June 24, 1862. – Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, ; ‘ Commanding Department Mississippi, Corinth, Miss. : I arrived here yesterday afternoon after…
COLUMBIA, TENN. COLUMBIA, TENN., June 23, 1862. Hon. B. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Have the following information direct; believe it to be reliable: Rebel forces concentrating in Tupelo,…
La Fayette Station La Fayette Station, June 23, 1862. General HuRLBUT, Commanding Fourth Division, La Grange, Tenn. : Sir: Remain with your whole division at or near La Grange. Don’t…