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46,149 lettersCamp Calvert, November 28, 1861. GENERAL: I have directed the quartermasters of different regiments as well as brigade commanders to endeavor to learn how many wagons they ean gather in…
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 one…
Camp Calvert, November 27, 1861. (Received November 29, 1861.) GENERAL: I wrote you this morning Mel despairingly.* Tam glad to say that the feeling in camp seems better this evening.…
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 Wabash and…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, November 25, 1861. : Camp Calvert, November 25, 1861. My DEAR SIR: A day or two after I wrote you I received orders to break up…
CALHOUN CALHOUN, November 25, 1861. General BUELL: I wrote you this morning t that a rebel force, said to be commanded by Breckinridge, estimated from 4,000 to 6,000, reached Rochester…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 24, 1861. (Received November 27, 1361.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding, &e., Danville, Ky.: GENERAL: On the 21st instant I sent out…
Paducah, Ky., November 23, 1861. To the ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Hdqrs. Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo. : SIR: I have just answered General Halleckâs telegram* in relation to Hardeeâs…
Camp Calvert, November 22, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding, dec. : GENERAL: Your dispatch of 20th [21st?] instant from Stanford, ordering me to break up the camp at…
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 the Ohio…
Cairo, November 21, 1861. Capt. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant- General, Saint Louis, Mo.: General Orders, No. 1, of the 19th instant, -â â of the Missouri, is just received.…
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 Columbia,…
Camp Calvert, November 19, 1861. GENERAL: I have just received information that the rebels, 5,000 strong, were last night at Flat Lick, 8 miles above Barboursville and 32 miles from…
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 Cumberland and to…
HEADQUARTERS LEFT WING, December 5, 1862. December 5, 1862. Respectfully forwarded. Although the style and matter of this report show that Colonel Kargé himself is entirely unacquainted with his duty,…
Fort Donelson, February 21, 1862. I am now in possession of Clarksville, but will move no force there except General Smithâs division until I hear from General Halleck. There is…
Nashville, Tenn., February 18, 1862. SIR: In conformity with the intention beds 1 to the Department, the corps under the command of Major-General Hardee completed the evacuation of Bowling Green…
HEADQUARTERS CUMBERLAND GAP, February 18, 1862. February 18, 1862. SIR: In a dispatch of the 14th instant I acquainted you with the fact that our cavalry pickets had been attacked…
February 14, 1862. SIR: I am convinced that the enemy will attack us at this place within a week. An attack to-morrow is probable. Theircavalry drove in our pickets to-day…
Camp Cumberland, February 14, 1862. CAPTAIN: A reconnaissance was made to-day by a company of First Battalion Kentucky Cavalry, under the immediate command of Lieutenant-Colonel Munday. Lieutenant-Colonel Munday reports that…