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46,149 lettersHEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 25, 1861. General MCDOWELL, U.S. A., Arlington : General Scott says he hears some of your regiments are too far advanced, particularly between Little River…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND, Fort McHenry, July 24, 1861. Gen. B. F. BuTLER, Commanding U. S. Forces, Fort Monroe, Va. : GENERAL: The following telegram has just been received at…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND, Fort McHenry, July 24, 1861. ; Sir: I received your confidential dispatch last evening, with the let___ ter inclosed, concerning the ‘”‘ Winans arms.”* Major-General Banks…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND, Fort McHenry, July 24, 1861—9 p.m.. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters of the Ariny: COLONEL: I annex a list of fhe regiments whose term…
GRAFTON GRAFTON, July 24, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General : Cheat River region is stripped of troops except one regiment. One, diverted from Huttonsville, went to Oakland last…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 23, 1861. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, Commanding, &c., Arlington, Va: Col. E. D, Keyes sends word he is at Ohio camps with the well part of…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 23, 1861. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, Arlington : The General-in-Chief directs that you have a suitable escort at the Georgetown Ferry at one o’clock to-day to…
et HeEapguagrers Army et HeEapguagrers Army, July 22, 1861. General McDowEL1, U. S. A., Arlington: General Scott says it is eke intended you should reduce your com ea Ri mand…
ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, July 22, 1861. Col. T. A. Scott: General Scott’s last instructions to me last night, before I retreated, was to retire to our camps in Washington. Is this…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 22, 1861. Colonel McCunn, Thirty-seventh New York, Fairfax Station : Come in with the regiments with you and Colonel Woodbury to your camps in Washington,
ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, July 22, 1861. Hon. S. CAMERON: Str: There are about seven thousand men here without officers. Nothing but confusion. Please tell me what I shall do with my…
Washington, D. O. Washington, D. O., July 22, 1861. General GEORGE B, MCCLELLAN, Beverly, Va. : Circumstances make your presence here necessary. Charge Rosecraus or some other general with your…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 21, 1861. Governor CuRTIN, Harrisburg, Pa. : Please send the Wisconsin regiment at Harrisburg to report to the general at Baltimore instead of Harper’s…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY, Washington HEADQUARTERS ARMY, Washington, July 21, 1861. General Runyon, Alexandria: Let the two New Jersey regiments remain at Fairfax Station, as General McDowell must know they are there,…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 21, 1861. General Runyon, Alexandria, Va. : Send forward no more troops from Alexandria during the night.
FAIRFAX FAIRFAX, July 21, 1861. General MCDOWELL: I have learned from my scouts that large trees are felled across the turnpike on road from here to Alexandria. Things are looking…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, July 21, 1861. : July 21, 1861—9 p. m. General McDOWELL, Centreville : Besides three regiments sent you by General Runyon from the reserve, four regiments…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS ARMY, July 21, 1861. General MCDOWELL, Fairfax Court-House : Three regiments—Woodbury’s, McOunn’s, and another, name not known—are at Fairfax Station. , A commissary train is stopped a…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, ie 21, 1861. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, Commanding, Ce. It is known that a strong re- diiortomont left Wihoheser on the afternoon of the 18th, which you…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 20, 1861. General MANSFIELD, Commanding, é&e. : Telegraphic communication only open to Fairfax. You will please therefore take measures to carry out instructions of…