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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Gaston, Cal., January 29, 1864. COLONEL: By letter to department headquarters of date January 21 I informed the commanding general of rumored hostilities on Salmon…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Gaston, Cal., December 30, 1863. COLONEL: very respectfully report the following: On the day of my arrival at this post, 22d instant, information was brought…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, Cal., September 26, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of telegraphic dispatch from department headquarters via Weaverville, of date September…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., June 2, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report to the general commanding the department that on the 5th of May…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., October 27, 1863. Sir: I have the honor to report the arrival of my command at this post on…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, October 11, 1863. Camp No. 67, on Owyhee River, October 11, 1863. Sir: I have the honor to report that my command arrived here…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, August 8, 1863. Camp No. 33, Camas Prairie, Idaho Ter., August 8, 1863. GENERAL: The scouting parties sent out on my arrival in this…
Four miles west of Lewisburg Four miles west of Lewisburg, August 1, 1861. General R. E. LEE, Commanding, &c.: * ‘Sir: Iam here, falling back to Covington, under orders left…
MANASSAS MANASSAS, July 31, 1861. General S. COOPER: _ News has reached here that General Banks has assembled eight _ thousand men for operations in the valley. If true, can…
HEADQUARTERS, Williamsburg, Va., July 30, 1861. Captain HENDERSON, C. 8. A.: Sie: I have just learned, for the first time, that the carriages of the guns mounted at Yorktown are…
HEADQUARTERS OF CAVALRY, Cockletown, July 29, 1861. Maj. G. B. CosBy,, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Hdqrs. Army of Yorktown : Masor: I have the honor to report that I returned to…
Williamsburg, Va. Williamsburg, Va., July 28, 1861. Colonel Crump, Commanding, Gloucester Point, Va.: Sir: General Magruder directs that you will make a call upon the citizens of Gloucester, Middlesex, and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, May 4, 1863. Brig. Gen. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. 0.: GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith the…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE NORTHWEST, Monterey, Va., July 28, 1861. COLONEL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the troops on this line since…
LYNCHBURG LYNCHBURG, July 28, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER: There have been ordered by your instructions to Lynchburg five regiments, three of whom have been forwarded to and are now…
HDQRS. OF FORCES IN AND AROUND COCKLETOWN, July 27, 1861. July 27, 1861. Maj. G. B. Cossy, Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of Yorktown: MAsor: I have the honor to report that…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE FORCES, Richmond, Va., July 27, 1861. Brig. Gen. T. H. HouMEs, Commanding at Fredericksburg, Brooke’s Station, Va.: GENERAL: I regret to learn that the proposed construction of…
LyNcHBURG, VA. LyNcHBURG, VA., July 27, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War: re Your dispatch received. I have ordered two regiments. Shall I order the third? I wait…
RicumonD RicumonD, July 27, 1861. General S. R. ANDERSON, Lynchburg, Va.: The three Tennessee regiments first advanced will be under the command of General Donelson. The other two regiments under…
MANASSAS MANASSAS, July 27, 1861. General S. COOPER: Your dispatch in reference to arms abandoned by the enemy has been received. ‘Tell the President that General Beauregard and myself have…