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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS HAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 28, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. Tuomas, U. S. A., ‘ Commanding, £c., Danville : GENERAL: I have directed the quartermasters of different…
LEBANON LEBANON, November 28, 1861. General BUELL: Express from Colonel Bramlette at 2 o’clock this morning. He says the enemy is now in Wayne County, advancing towards the river; some…
Cairo Cairo, November 28, 1861. Capt. J. C. KELTON, Saint Louis, Mo.: I would respectfully report for the consideration of the general com: manding the department that on Monday last…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 27, 1861. (Received November 29, 1861.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, U.S. A, Commanding, dc., Danville : GENERAL: I wrote you this morning…
LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE, November 27, 1861. General THOMAS, Lebanon: Send General Sehoepf, with one section of artillery, Wolford’s cavalry, and the nearest regiment of infantry rapidly to Somerset to relieve Hoskins,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 27, 1861. Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding U. S. Army: My DEAR FRIEND: I have not written you very frequently because I could not…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, November 26, 1861. Brig. Gen. C. F. SMITH, Commanding at Paducah, Ky.: GENERAL: The protection of the line of the Ohio between the mouths of the…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp ‘Calvert, November 25, 1861. (Received November 29, 1861. ? Commanding, &e., Danville, KEy.: GENERAL: Yours of the 23d instan inclosing orders from department headquarters for…
HDQRS. OF THE ARMY, ADJT. GEN.’S OFFICE, Washington, .D. C., November 25, 1861. Brig. Gen. D. C. BUELL, Commanding Department of the Ohio: GENERAL: Your telegram received.* I have not…
DANVILLE, Ky. DANVILLE, Ky., November 23, 1861. Brig. Gen. S. P. CARTER, Commanding East Tennessee Brigade: GENERAL: The inclosed dispatch* has just been received. “The general commanding: directs me to…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Paducah, Ky., November 23, 1861. To the ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, SIR: I have just answered General Halleck’s telegram* in relation to Hardee’s supposed purpose of crossing the…
LovISVILLE LovISVILLE, November 23, 1861. General MCCLELLAN, Washington : I have a report not yet confirmed that Zollicoffer, 6,000 strong, has crossed the Cumberland at Gainesborough, probably on his way…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 22, 1861. GENERAL: Your dispatch of 20th [21st?] instant from Stanford, ordering me to break up the camp at London and join you…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, November 22, 1861. Brig. Gen. C. F. SMITH, Commanding, do., at Paducah, Ky.: It is reported that Goral Hardee, with 8,000 men, is about to cross…
STANFORD, K. Y. STANFORD, K. Y., November 21, 1861. Capt. J. B. FRY, A. A. G. and Chief of Staff, Sir: Your communication of the 19th has just been received.…
Cairo Cairo, November 21, 1861. Capt. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General, Saint Louis, Mo.: General Orders, No. 1, of the 19th instant, -— — of the Missouri, is just received.…
HEADQUARTERS, Crab Orchard, November 20, 1861. Brig. Gen. 8. P. CARTER, Commanding Camp Calvert: GENERAL: Your dispatch [of 19th instant] has just been received. My orders are to move towards…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, U. S. A., Commanding, Éc., Crab Orchard: GENERAL: I have just received information that the rebels,…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., November 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Division, Crab Orchard, Ky. : SIR: General Buell directs me to say that the orders he has…
HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, Murfreesborough, Tenn., February 25, 1862. SIR: The fall of Fort Donelson compelled me to withdraw the remaining forces under my command from the north bank of the…