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46,149 lettersApril 9, 1869. No. 17. Tybee Island, Ga., April 9, 1869. The batteries established against Fort Pulaski will be manned and ready for service at break of day to-morrow. The…
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF ENGINEER’S OFFICE, Hilton Head, S. C., December 1, 1861. Brig. Gen. THomas W. SHERMAN, Commanding Expeditionary Corps, Hilton Head, S. C.: SIR: Agreeably to your orders, I proceeded…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Hilton Head, S. C., October 20, 1865. SIR : I have the honor to submit the following report, compiled from my original report to the…
Tybee and Cockspur Islands, April 23, 1862. GENERAL: You showed me General Viele’s report of the operations of his command on the Savannah River. As I was present with his…
Tybee Island, Ga., April 10, 1862. To the COMMANDING OFFICER, Fort Pulaski; SIR: I hereby demand of you the immediate surrender and restoration of Fort Pulaski to the authority and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Ga., April 13, 1862. Sir: The flag of our country waves over Fort Pulaski, I summoned the garrison to surrender at…
HDQRS. PROVISIONAL FORCES EAST FLORIDA, Camp Langford, Fla., April 12, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report, for the information of the col3nel commanding the department, that Capt. William…
Fernandina, Fla., April 27, 1862. Report in ease of a party of men belonging to Company I, Ninth Maine Regiment, captured by the enemy on the 10th of April, 1862.—…
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF EAST AND MIDDLE FLORIDA, Tallahassee, Fla., April 15, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report to the commanding general the evacuation of Jacksonville by the enemy,…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., April 28, 1862. SIR: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the 24th instant, directing the Secretary of War to…
Fernandina, Fla., April 10, 1862. Lieut. Col. H. BISBEE, Jr., Ninth Maine Regiment, Commanding Post, Fernandina, Fla.: COLONEL: Three companies of the Fourth New Hampshire Regiment, now on board the…
Jacksonville, Fla., April 8, 1862. Lieut. Col. Louis BELL . Comdg. Fourth N. H. Regiment, Saint Augustine, Fla.: COLONEL: The major-general commanding the department having directed the abandonment of Jacksonville…
April 7, 1862. NOTIOE.] Jacksonville, Fla., April 7, 1862. In accordance with orders issued by the general commanding the Department of the South, the troops will be withdrawn from this…
Jacksonville, Fla., April 2, 1862. Commanding Provisional Forces of East Florida, Camp Langford, East Florida: COLONEL: After a careful consideration of the propositions presented in your communication of the 1st…
April 13, 1862. Port Royal Harbor, 8. O., April 13, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding the Northern District, that, in…
HEADQUARTERS HOLCOMBE LEGION, Camp Blair, S. C., March 30, 1862. COLONEL: In pursuance of your orders, as soon as Colonel Shingler’s command crossed Watt’s Cut, I moved my command, composed…
Camp Blair, S. C., March 31, 1862. I have the honor to report the following articles captured in the late expedition to Edisto: 9 muskets and 7 bayonets; 2 rifled…
March 29, 1862. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that, pursuant to orders from Brig. Gen. N. G. Evans, commanding, I last night moved from Jehossee, about 3 a.…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD MILITARY DISTRIOT S. O., Adams Run, S. C., March 30, 1862. CAPTAIN: About two weeks sinceit was reported to me that the enemy had advanced from Edisto Island…
HDQRS. PROVISIONAL FORCES, DEPT. E. AND M. FLA, Tallahassee, Fla., April 4, 1862. MAJOR : I have to report a most successful skirmish, which took place at Smyrna on [the]…