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46,149 lettersOFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE, Richmond, Va., February 8, 1864. Respectfully returned to Honorable Secretary of War. Maj. P. W. White, chief commissary of subsistence, Florida, has been called on to…
Raleigh Raleigh, January 25, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: DEAR Sir: To obviate any further difficulty in regard to carrying out cotton by the Collie…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 25, 1864. General HOWELL COBB, Atlanta, Ga.: Congress has not yet acted. Itisnot thought expedient to organize new companies, but to…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 21, 1864. His Excellency M. L. BONHAM, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, 8. C.: Sir: I have received your letter of…
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA, Montgomery, January 19, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Sir: I have seen Maj. J. J. Walker, acting commissary of subsistence for the State,…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 14, 1864. Governor Z. B. VANCE, Raleigh, N. C.: Your EXCELLENCY: I am duly in receipt of your letter of 7th instant. Before it came…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 11, 1864. Governor VANCE, Raleigh, N. C.: Your request anticipated. The Don went to sea on or before the 9th. J.…
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF COMMISSARY, Quincy, Fla., December 9, 1868. His Excellency JOHN MILTON, Governor of Florida: GOVERNOR: Having just received this morning a copy of the act of the…
QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL’S OFFICE, TAX IN KIND, January 20, 1864. January 20, 1864. If the county authorities of the counties of Florida will apply to Maj. C. C. Yonge, controlling quartermaster of…
Tallahassee Tallahassee, January 11, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: Sir: Iam informed by the judges of probate and ecunty commissioners of several counties in the…
Raleigh, N. C. Raleigh, N. C., January 7, 1864. DEAR SiR: Your dispatch of the 6th, asking me not to object to making the steamer Don conform to the regulations…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, January 7, 1864. No. 5. J January 7, 1864. X. V. Paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No. 298, and paragraph XVIII, Special Orders, No.…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ANNAPOLIS, Fort McHenry, June 13, 1861. To the MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE: Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of an…
Washington Washington, June 12, 1861. General McCLELLAN, U.S. A., Cincinnati, Ohio: Your telegram of yesterday is received. There has been a misapprehension somewhere. The Secretary of War approves your policy…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Chambersburg, Pa., June 12, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Headquarters of Army, Washington City: General Cadwalader arrived, and goes to Greencastle to command First Division, composed…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Chambersburg, Pa., June 6, 1861. Col. LEwiIs WALLACE, Eleventh Indiana Regiment, Cumberland, Md. : Srr: I am instructed by Major-General Patterson to direct you to halt…
Washington Washington, June 4, 1861. Gen. R. PATTERSON, Chambersburg, Pa. : General Scott says do not make a move forward until you are joined by a battery of the Fourth…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pa., May 23, 1861. A. A. G., Headquarters of the Army, Washington City: Sie: In compliance with verbal intimation from the General-in-Chief I present for…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1861. To the ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. O.: Sir: A few minutes since I received a telegram from…
Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, 1801. Magsor: I inelose report from Capt. T. H. Neill, U.S. Army, that Colonel Lyle’s muskets are entirely unserviceable. Captain Neill is now inspecting…