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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Tittle Rock, September 6, 1864. Brig. Gen. C. C. ANDREWS, Deval’s Bluff: Please send a guide with Lieutenant O’Reilly to conduct the cavalry division under Colonel…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROOK, Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Brig. Gen. C. BUSSEY, Commanding First Division: GENERAL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you have a sufficient force in…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Little Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Lieut. LUKE O’REILLY, Aide-de-Camp, General Mower’s Staff: Please direct the cavalry division under Colonel Winslow to cross at Clarendon and…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, &C., Tittle Rock, Ark., September 6, 1864. Maj. Gen. J. A. MOWER, Commanding First Division, Sixteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: Please bring your division to Devall’s Bluff…
NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, September 6, 1864. COLONEL : The major-general commanding directs that you will sail with the Twenty-third Wisconsin and Ninety-sixth Ohio, so soon as you have taken…
HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, New Orleans, September 6, 1864. Maj. C. T. CHRISTENSEN, Assistant Adjutant-General: Masor : I havethe honor to report that the Twenty-third Wisconsin and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteers…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, September 7, 1864. Respectfully forwarded. The request of Col. 8S. B. Holabird is approved. Early action by the commanding general of the military…
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, DEPT. OF THE GULF, New Orleans, September 6, 1864. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Commanding : GENERAL: The strikes among boiler makers and machinists and the exorbitant…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 6, 1864. Major-General CANBY, New Orleans: GENERAL: Lieutenant-General Grant directs that all the sick and detailed men of the part of the Nineteenth Corps…
Fort Ridgely Fort Ridgely, September 5, 1864. _ CAPTAIN: The orders received with your communication of the Ist instant have been carried into effect, and Company G, Thirtieth Wis- consin,…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1864. GENERAL: Your private and official letters by Captain Pope just received. Of course you can leave six companies of Second…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWES7, Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose copy of telegraphic dispatch* sent you this a. m. advising departure to-morrow for…
MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, September 5, 1864. Brig. Gen. H. H. SIBLEY, Saint Paul, Minn. : Send you to-morrow two full companies First Regiment U. 8. Volunteers. These are part of the…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1864. Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal-General, Madison, Wis. : COLONEL: As troops are needed much on frontier of Minnesota, I shall send immediately…
WARRENSBURG WARRENSBURG, September 5, 1864. Col. J. H. Forp, Kansas City: Order two companies of your command to move forthwith from Independence to Pleasant Hill. Acknowledge receipt. By command, &c.…
Kansas Oiry, Mo. Kansas Oiry, Mo., September 5, 1864. Capt. J. H. STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General, Warrensburg, Mo.: Have just returned. Scouted thoroughly in neighborhood of Round and Texas Prairies, Bone…
JEFFERSON City JEFFERSON City, September 5, 1864. Capt. J. H. STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General : It is said that this post is to be attacked to-night or to-morrow night. The information…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF ROLLA, September 5, 1864. No. 130. ! Rolla, Mo., September 5, 1864. I. Col. A. Sigel, Fifth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, is hereby relieved from…
CAPE GIRARDEAU CAPE GIRARDEAU, September 5, 1864. Captain EDWARDS, New Madrid, Mo.: Captain McClanahan will arrive at your post to-day with about 100 men. Captain Ewing has also sent you…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., September 5, 1864. General EwINne: According to the latest information I have there is a force of some this post, Bloomfield, Charleston, and New…