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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, Camp on Mills’ Farm, Va., July 25, 1862. GENERAL: In compliance with your order I respectfully submit a report of the part taken by the Third Brigade…
HDQRS. FIRST REGIMENT SOUTH CAROLINA VOLS., Camp on New Market Road, Va., July 14, 1862. GENERAL: In obedience to orders I desire to report as to the part pa by…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, LIGHT DIVISION, Laurel Hill, Va., July 18, 1862. GENERAL: I learn from Colonel Hamilton, commanding First South Carolina Volunteers, that, in an interview with yourself and the…
HEADQUARTERS LIGHT DIVISION, Camp Gregg, Va., March 11, 1862. GENERAL: I send you the report of General Gregg of the battle of Cold Harbor and Colonel MecGowan’s report of the…
HEADQUARTERS LIGHT DIVISION, March 11, 1863. March 11, 1863. Masor: Will you do me the favor to add to my report of the battles around Richmond the following additions in…
HEADQUARTERS LIGHT DIVISION, Camp Gregg, February 28, 1863. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Light Division in the battles of…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, HUGER’S DIVISION, July 12, 1862. COLONEL: I herewith inclose a report of the operations of my brigade from the morning of June 26 to the morning of…
HEADQUARTERS OF DIVISION, Falling Creek, Chesterfield County, July 21, 1862. GENERAL: I submit herewith the reports of different commanders in this division, showing the part taken by the troops under…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH BRIGADE, July 29, 1862. Masor: I beg to submit the following report of the operations of the Fifth Brigade in the recent engagements around Richmond: About 11 o’clock…
HEADQUARTERS, Near Richmond, July 29, 1862. CoLONEL: In obedience to Confidential General Orders, No. 75,* and previously arranged plans, the divisions of Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill and my own…
HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, July 5, 1862. Sir: I have the honor to make the following report of the action of the Seventeenth Mississippi Regiment, engaged on the evening of…
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT, July 5, 1862. COLONEL: The command of the Thirteenth Mississippi Regiment having devolved upon me just before the close of the engagement on Tuesday evening, July…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, August 12, 1862. August 12, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit a succinct report of the operations of the brigade under my command from the…
HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT, July 10, 1862. July 10, 1862. GENERAL: I beg leave to submit the following report of the action of the Seventh South Carolina Regiment in…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT, Camp Jackson, July 11, 1862. Sir: I have the honor to report that, in obedience to orders received from Brig. Gen. J. B. Kershaw, on…
HDQRS. SECOND REGIMENT SOUTH CAROLINA VOLS, Camp McLaws, Va., July 12, 1862. CAPTAIN: In obedience to orders from brigade headquarters, requiring a report of the conduct of the Second Regiment…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, July 4, 1862. RigHt WING, DEPARTMENT OF THE Potomac, July 4, 1862. Report of Casualties in the First Brigade, Second Division, Right Wing, Department of…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH GEORGIA REGIMENT, July 13, 1862. July 13, 1862. Sir: On the 27th ultimo the Ninth Georgia Regiment received orders to advance the picket line on the east side…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH GEORGIA REGIMENT, July 2, 1862. LIEUTENANT: In obedience to orders I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the Eighth Regiment Georgia…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST GEORGIA REGULARS, Camp near Richmond, Va., July 10, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit, for the consideration of the colonel commanding, the following report of this…