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17,141 lettersEXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA, Montgomery, January 6, 1864. Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Sir: Unless the planting interest in the South can be carried on successfully the armies…
CAMP IAQUA, CAL. CAMP IAQUA, CAL., June 15, 1864. Maj. THoMAS F. WRIGHT, Sixth Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding Post: Sir: At your request I have read the report of the…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., January 4, 1864. His Excellency Z. B. VANCE, Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C.: Sir: Your letter of the 29th ultimo,…
593, 594, 596, 598, 606, 608. GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, January 4, 1864. No. 1. Richmond, January 4, 1864. I. If immediately after the death of an…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Iaqua, Oal., June 80, 1864. Sir: I have the honor to report the operations of this command during the preceding fifteen days: On the 19th Lieutenant Taylor, Sixth…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Iaqua, Cal., May 31, 1864. SIR: I have the honor to report the following operations of this command during the preceding fifteen days against the hostile Indians: Five…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, May 10, 1864. Col. H. M. BLAcK, Sixth Infantry California Vols., Comdg. Dist. of Humboldt : SIR: The general commanding desires me to…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF HUMBOLDT, Fort Humboldt, Cal., May 28, 1864. COLONEL: I have the honor to report, and it is with much satisfaction, for the information of the department commander,…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF HUMBOLDT, Temporarily in Camp near Fort Gaston, Cal., April 7, 1864. COLONEL: In order that the general commanding department may know what is being done within this…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, May 17, 1864. Sir: For the information of the lieutenant-general commanding the Army and the honorable Secretary of War I have the honor…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, May 9, 1864. SIR: Tranquillity prevails throughout the department except in the District of Humboldt, where the Indian war is being prosecuted vigorously…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Gaston, Cal., January 29, 1864. COLONEL: I have to report that on yesterday Corpl. José Picaso and a sergeant of Captain Picos company Native California…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Gaston, Cal., January 29, 1864. COLONEL: By letter to department headquarters of date January 21 I informed the commanding general of rumored hostilities on Salmon…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Gaston, Cal., December 30, 1863. COLONEL: very respectfully report the following: On the day of my arrival at this post, 22d instant, information was brought…
HEADQUARTERS HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, Fort Humboldt, Cal., September 26, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of telegraphic dispatch from department headquarters via Weaverville, of date September…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UTAH, Camp Douglas, Utah Ter., June 2, 1863. COLONEL: I have the honor to report to the general commanding the department that on the 5th of May…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., October 27, 1863. Sir: I have the honor to report the arrival of my command at this post on…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, October 11, 1863. Camp No. 67, on Owyhee River, October 11, 1863. Sir: I have the honor to report that my command arrived here…
HDQRS. EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SNAKE INDIANS, August 8, 1863. Camp No. 33, Camas Prairie, Idaho Ter., August 8, 1863. GENERAL: The scouting parties sent out on my arrival in this…
Four miles west of Lewisburg Four miles west of Lewisburg, August 1, 1861. General R. E. LEE, Commanding, &c.: * ‘Sir: Iam here, falling back to Covington, under orders left…