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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Port Royal, S. C., March 25, 1862. To the ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington, D. O.: SIR: Since my letter of the 9th instant, on learning that…
TREASURY DEPARTMENT TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 22, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War : SIR: Mr. Pierce, special agent of this Department at Port Royal, reports that the plantations…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, U. S. Steamer Cahawba, Fernandina, Fla., March 21, 1862. Brig. Gen. HonATIO G. WRIGHT, GENERAL: I am directed by the commanding general to communieate to you that…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, March 16, 1862. Port Royal, S. 0O., March 16, 1862. The ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington: SIR: I have the honor to report that after Brigadier-General Wright…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Port Royal, S. C., March 15, 1862. Major-General MCCLELLAN, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Army: GENERAL: From information just received from our forces at North Edisto It is probable…
Washington, D. O. Washington, D. O., March 14, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of this…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Hilton Head, S. C., March 13, 1862. General EGBERT L. VIELE, Commanding Forces, Daufuskie Island, S. C. : GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to inform you…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 13, 1862. Capt. Louw H. PELOUZE, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General : CAPTAIN: I have to report, in regard to the States found here…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 10, 1862. Capt. Louis H. PELOUZE, Acting Assistant Adjutant-G eneral : CAPTAIN: The inhabitants left behind in the evacuation of this place…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, A. G. O., Washington, March 10, 1862. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, U. S. A., Commanding, &c., Port Royal, S. C.: GENERAL: I am instructed to…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 9, 1862. Col. THOMAS J. WHIPPLE, Commanding Fourth New Hampshire Regiment : COLONEL: Flag-Officer DuPont proceeds to-day to the Saint John’s River,…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, Fernandina, Fla., March 8, 1862. General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Hilton Head: GENERAL: By the steamer McClellan, which left for Hilton Head this morning, I informed…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Port Royal, S. C., March 8, 1862. Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MoCLELLAN, Commanding U. S. Army: GENERAL: Yours of February 14 was received on the 3dinstant. Pulaski…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, EXPED’Y CORPS, March 7, 1862. Fernandina, Fla. March 7, 1862. Col. THOMAS J. WHIPPLE, Cammanding Fourth New Hampshire Regiment: COLONEL: After having embarked the eight companies of…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, February 28, 1862. Port Royal, S. 0., February 28, 1862. GENERAL: The deserters just in from Savannah say there are about 65,000 troops in and about the…
HEADQUARTERS EXPEDITIONARY CORPS, Off Tybee, Ga., February 27, 1862. The ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY, Washington, D. O.: Sin: It was my intention to accompany the expedition for Fernandina, and while…
WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT, February 18, 1862. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Commanding at Port Royal, S. C.: GENERAL: You are hereby directed to afford protection, subsistence, and facilities, so…
WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT, February 18, 1862. Col. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Assistant Quartermaster-General, New York City: COLONEL: You are hereby directed to furnish transportation by sea from New York City…
HEADQUARTERS UF THE ARMY, Washington, February 14, 1862. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Commanding at Port Royal, &c. : GENERAL: Your dispatches in regard to the occupation of Daufuskie Island,…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, February 12, 1862. Brig. Gen. THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Commanding, Port Royal : GENERAL: You will learn by the mail that brings you this of our…