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46,149 lettersPoolesville, October 20, 1861. Col. CHARLES , DEVENS, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers : COLONEL: You will please send orders to the canal to have the two new flat-boats now…
Poolesville, October 29, 1861. = As much time must elapse before complete reports can be obtained from the various commanders of regiments, I have the honor to submit the following…
GENERAL ORDERS, ! HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, October 25, 1861. No. 32. “Washington, October 25, 1861. The major-general commanding the Army of the Potomac desires to offer his thanks,…
Washington, November 1, 1861. SIR : I have the honor to forward herewith Brigadier-General Stone’s report of the engagement near Leesburg on the 21st ultimo. I-also transmit a copy of…
Camp Piney, November 19, 1861. SIR: In execution of a general plan, of which you were fully advised in my last dispatch, I succeeded [ November 1] in placing my…
Camp Dickerson, November 7, 1861. SIR: I asked instructions from the War Department nearly two weeks since as to the best point to be occupied by this command as winter…
Camp Huddleston, Va., November 18, 1861. == SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in the recent rout and pursuit…
Camp, Gauley Mountain, November 6, 1861. GENERAL: Inclosed you will find a sketch, marked, showing the west side of Kanawha from Fayette to Paint Creek, with such roads marked as…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 13, 1861. Your No. 32, dated 2 p. m., just received. The commanding general does not think the rebels have entirely gone, but what their force…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 13, 1861. I hope your camp equipage has been ordered up. Make every arrangement to occupy the hill, and make your troops comfortable until others come…
November 11, 1861. : Camp Gauley Mountain, November 11, 1861. ` Dispatches just received from General Schenck confirm previous ones. The enemy is concentrated in camp extending from Dickerson’s to…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 11, 1861. Inform me as early as possible how long it wil také you to move from your present position with your entire force to reach…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 10, 1861. Major Crawford says he thinks those two regiments, or a part of them at least, are moved down again this side of Warner’s, on…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 9, 1861. Yours (No. 18) received. Major Crawford just returned, and reports the river too high to cross to night, but falling; will be ready by…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 9, 1861. Yours (No. 16) received. This rain is very untoward. General Schenckâs report not yet in. Rain may prevent his crossing. He will not be…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 8, 1861. Schenck’s boats will not be ready to-night. Scouts from Lookout and — Bowyer’s Ferry report no indications of approaching force. There is a scout…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 8, 1861. Your two dispatches and copy of Lieutenant-Colonel Creighton’s just received. When the other scouts come in from Colonel Siber collate carefully all the information…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 6, 1861. We must have Loop Creek up beyond Taylor’s and the ridge between it and the valley of the Fayette road. Secure this with as…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 4, 1861. Your dispatch received. Three boats will be sent you this evening. You will find the wagon-body arrangement makes a solid and capacious float of…
Camp Gauley Mountain Camp Gauley Mountain, November 3, 1861. Colonel Woods has been ordered to you temporarily for duty. Assign him to command Tenth Regiment. Let Captain Amis and a…