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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, October 20, 1861. Col. CHARLES , DEVENS, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers : COLONEL: You will please send orders to the canal to have the…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, 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…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF KANAWHA, 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…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF KANAWHA, 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…
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH REGIMENT O. V. I., Camp Huddleston, Va., November 18, 1861. == SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment…
Camp Gauley Mountain 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…
Camp Gauley Mountain Camp Gauley Mountain, November 25, 1861. SIR: My current series of dispatches has informed the commanding general of the principal military events in this department, including those…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, FORT LYON, October 19, 1861. October 19, 1861. This reconnaissance shows that the rebels are in force between Long Branch and Accotink Run, above the Telegraph road. If…
HEADQUARTERS RICHARDSON’S BRIGADE, October 19, 1861. October 19, 1861. SIR: In obedience to your instructions, I left this camp yesterday at 3.30 p. m. to make a reconnaissance in the…
HDQRS. TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT PA. VOLS, Camp Tyndale, Point of Rocks, Md., October 18, 1861. SIR: On the 8th instant Maj. J. P. Gould, of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, acting under…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, October 3, 1861. October 3, 1861. SIR: You will take command of a detachment of 300 infantry from the regiments composing this brigade and one company of…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, Alexandria, Va., October 6, 1861. SIR: I received information on the 3d instant that a body of the enemy’s cavalry was at Pohick Church, about 12 miles…
GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF THE NORTHWEST, October 7, 1861. i No. 11. Sewell Mountain, October 7, 1861. The general commanding has the pleasure to announce to the Army of…
WAR DEPARTMENT, O. S. A., Richmond, October 12, 1861. SIR: I have received through the Adjutant-General your report of the action of 3d instant at Greenbrier River. I congratulate both…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND REGIMENT, BAKER’S BRIGADE, Camp Advance, Va., September 29, 1861. Str: On Saturday morning, the 28th instant, the Second Regiment received orders to prepare two days’ cooked provisions, and…
HEADQUARTERS BAKER’S BRIGADE, Near Monocacy, October 6, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose the reports of the officers commanding two regiments in the brigade under my command. It…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., September 11, 1861—11 p. m.. 4 Sir: Your letter was handed to me half an hour ago by Mr. Allen,* – who is of…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 11, 1861. GENERAL: The passage of any act of secession by the legislature of Maryland must be prevented. If necessary, all or any part of the…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS, September 14, 1861. No. —. Camp on Valley River, Va., September 14, 1861. The forced reconnaissance of the enemy’s positions, both at Cheat Mountain Pass and…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, A. O. W. VA., Elk Water, September 17, 1861. GENERAL: The operations of this brigade for the past few days may be summed up as follows: On…