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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS TAMMANY REGIMENT, Camp Lyon, near Poolesville, Md., November 4, 1861. Sir: I herewith transmit to you a complete report of an engagement with the rebels at a point on…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, Camp Benton, Md., November 4, 1861. SIR : General Orders, No. 24, this day received and promulgated to this” A e Ra TOM as ot E ali…
HEADQUARTERS, POOLESVILLE, MD., November 5, 1861. November 5, 1861. General Stone presents his compliments to General Evans, and acknowledges the receipt of his communication of the 4th instant, . through…
HEADQUARTERS CONFEDERATE FORCES, Leesburg, November 4, 1861. The compliments of General Evans to General Stone, and informs. — ‘him that there are but a few of his wounded now at…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, November 7, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to forward herewith papers marked T 2, 9, 4, D, 6, concerning-a flag of truce sent for…
Edwards Ferry Edwards Ferry, October 21, 1861. Col. E. D. BAKER, Commanding Brigade : COLONEL: In case of heavy firing in front of Harrison’s Island, you will advance the California…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, November 2, 1861. GENERAL: The persistent attacks made upon me by the friends (so . called), of the lamented late Colonel Baker, through the newspaper…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, October 20, 1861. No. —. ‘ Poolesville, October 20, 1861—10.30 p. m. Colonel Devens will land opposite Harrison’s Island with five companies of his…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, October 20, 1861. Col. CHARLES , DEVENS, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers : COLONEL: You will please send orders to the canal to have the…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, October 29, 1861. = As much time must elapse before complete reports can be obtained from the various commanders of regiments, I have the honor…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF KANAWHA, Camp Piney, November 19, 1861. SIR: In execution of a general plan, of which you were fully advised in my last dispatch, I succeeded [ November…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF KANAWHA, Camp Dickerson, November 7, 1861. SIR: I asked instructions from the War Department nearly two weeks since as to the best point to be occupied by…
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH REGIMENT O. V. I., Camp Huddleston, Va., November 18, 1861. == SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment…
Camp Gauley Mountain Camp Gauley Mountain, November 10, 1861. Major Crawford says he thinks those two regiments, or a part of them at least, are moved down again this side…
Camp Gauley Mountain Camp Gauley Mountain, November 25, 1861. SIR: My current series of dispatches has informed the commanding general of the principal military events in this department, including those…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, FORT LYON, October 19, 1861. October 19, 1861. This reconnaissance shows that the rebels are in force between Long Branch and Accotink Run, above the Telegraph road. If…
HEADQUARTERS RICHARDSON’S BRIGADE, October 19, 1861. October 19, 1861. SIR: In obedience to your instructions, I left this camp yesterday at 3.30 p. m. to make a reconnaissance in the…
HDQRS. TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT PA. VOLS, Camp Tyndale, Point of Rocks, Md., October 18, 1861. SIR: On the 8th instant Maj. J. P. Gould, of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, acting under…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, October 3, 1861. October 3, 1861. SIR: You will take command of a detachment of 300 infantry from the regiments composing this brigade and one company of…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, Alexandria, Va., October 6, 1861. SIR: I received information on the 3d instant that a body of the enemy’s cavalry was at Pohick Church, about 12 miles…