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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 20, 1861. Brig. Gen. MONTGOMERY Ü. MEIGS, Quartermaster-General, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: There are some things that are next to impossible and…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY, Washington, October 5, 1861. The General-in-Chief directs me to say in reply to the question of the Honorable Secretary of State that he deems the force named by…
HEADQUARTERS, CAMP NEAR DARNESTOWN, September 20, 1861. ; September 20, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to report, in obedience to the order of the Secretary of War, and the…
Camp San Pedro Camp San Pedro, September 19, 1861. Adjutant First Infantry California Vols., San Francisco : LIEUTENANT : I have the honor to report that in obedience to orders…
NEW YORK NEW YORK, September 19, 1861. Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War, Washington City : SER: The inclosed document was received by us to-day through the pony express.* The…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 17, 1861. Lieut. Col. GEORGE A. H. BLAKE, First Dragoons, Commanding Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter.: SIR: The general commanding the department desires…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, September 17, 1861. No. 174. y San Francisco, September 17, 1861, The volunteer camp to be established in the vicinity of Placerville in…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 17, 1861. Brig. Gen. J. W. DENVER, U.S. Army, Wilmington, Ohio: — Repair to this city and report for orders preparatory to going to…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 17, 1861. COLONEL: I am compelled to assume the high responsibility of changing the destination of the troops ordered tothe plains. The…
SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO, September 14, 1861. Capt. Joun W. DAVIDSON, Commanding U. K. Dragoons, Camp Fitzgerald, Los Angeles : SIR: We, the undersigned, members of the Union Club of…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Fitzgerald, Cal., September 16, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal. : CAPTAIN: The information given you in my letter of the 9th instant has received much corroboration within…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., September 16, 1861. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that on the 13th instant I relieved Col. George Wright, Ninth Infantry,…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp near San Bernardino, Cal., September 16, 1861. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, U. S. Army, Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: Company E, Ninth Infantry, also Company K,…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 16, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U. S. Army, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco: SIR: A dispatch was sent you by…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 16, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. : Besides the volunteer force called for from California to guard…
GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, September 13, 1861. No. 1. y Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., September 13, 1861. I. First Lieut. A. ©. Wildrick, Third Artillery, will immediately relieve…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., September 12, 1861. Col. B. L. BEALL, First Dragoons, Fort Vancouver: _ COLONEL: I will give you a brief statement of the…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 9, 1861. Lieut. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. O.: COLONEL: The Governor…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Churchill, Nev. Ter., September 7, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to report that information was telegraphed me yesterday from Virginia City that a party of seventy emigrants…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, September 7, 1861. Lieut. Col. GEORGE ANDREWS, Sixth Regiment Infantry, Commanding Fort Yuma, Cal.: SIR: The general commanding the department desires me to…