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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, Little Rock, September 3, 1864. Maj. JAMES F. DWIGHT, Chief of Staff: Sir: Your instructions in reference to the pickets have been complied with.…
Tittle Rock, Ark. Tittle Rock, Ark., September 3, 1864. Brig. Gen. Cyrus BUSSEY, Commanding First Division, Seventh Army Corps: GENERAL: In answer to your suggestion that the post troops man…
HEADQUARTERS LA FOURCHE DISTRICT, Thibodeaux, La., September 3, 1864. Captain WASHBURNE, U.S. Navy, Brashear City, La.: A party of some 300 rebels attacked a scouting party near Napoleonville on the…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Morganza, September 3, 1864. Respectfully returned to Brigadier-General Dennis, with the information that Colonel Sheldon’s command will be subject to his orders on the passage to…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, September 3, 1864. September 3, 1864. Respectfully transmitted for the information of Capt. B. Wilson, assistant adjutant-general. L. A. SHELDON, Colonel, Commanding.{Third indorsement.]
Morganza, La. Morganza, La., September 3, 1864. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, SECOND Div., 19TH ARMY CORPS: CAPTAIN: This morning I received orders from Brigadier-General McGinnis, commanding Third Division, to embark three regiments…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Morganza, La., September 3, 1864. Brigadier-General DENNIS, Commanding Second Division: GENERAL: The general commanding directs that you delay your departure until Colonel Sheldon and Lieutenant-Colonel Crebs…
SPECIAL ORDERS,) WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, September 3, 1864. No. 292. Washington, September 3, 1864. 41, Paragraph 39, Special Orders, No. 273, August 17, 1864, from this office,* relieving…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, Tenn., September 3, 1864. Maj. Gen. E. R. 8. CANBY, Commanding Military Division of West Mississippi : GENERAL: I have just received a letter…
Fort Ridgely Fort Ridgely, September 2, 1864. CAPTAIN: I have just received your dispatch of the 31st ultimo,* and am greatly surprised at the news of Indian troubles on the…
Saint Paul, Minn. Saint Paul, Minn., September 2, 1864. Maj. Gen. JOHN POPE, Milwaukee : GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that I have received official dispatches from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 2, 1864. Brig. Gen. H. H. SIBLEY, Commanding District of Minnesota, Saint Paul: GENERAL: Your dispatch of yesterday has been received and…
PLUM CREEK PLUM CREEK, September 2, 1864. Colonel CHIVINGTON: If Latham is a good point Camp Collins might be dispensed with. If you think the 100-days’ men will do send…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE UPPER ARKANSAS, Fort Riley, September 2, 1864. Maj. S. S. CURTIS, Aide-de-Camp, Department of Kansas : Mason: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
FIELD HEADQUARTERS FRONTIER, In the Field, Plum Creek, Platte Valley, September 2, 1864. For convenience of a movement against Indians, the following arrangement of troops in this vicinity is temporarily…
Fulton, Mo. Fulton, Mo., September 2, 1864. LIEUTENANT: I have the honor herewith to submit to you my monthly report. During the past month the bushwhackers have been more troublesome…
WESTON WESTON, September 2, 1864. General Fisk: Gordon has gone north toward the Iowa line—the only whacker of any prominence now left to engage our attention except Capt. William Downing.…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, September 2, 1864. General FIsk: You have ample force already if properly disposed and used. There is abundance of bread-consuming, marauding, and traveling about, but no…
SAINT JOSEPH SAINT JOSEPH, September 2, 1864. Major Bonn, Aide-de-Camp : _ Catherwood is not in my district. He is now in Saint Louis recruiting. I have only a portion…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, September 2, 1864. General FIsk: A man named Gilstrap is reported to be in Howard and Randolph under the pretense of being a recruiting officer, committing…