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17,141 lettersHEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864. Major-General WARREN: Your dispatch is received. The major-general commanding directs that you go in with Burnside, taking the two-gun battery.…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 29, 1864. July 29, 1864—10 p.m. Major-General HUMPHREYS: i I have seen General Burnside and my division commanders. My arrangements for to-morrow were easy to…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 29, 1864. July 29, 1864—4 p. m. Major-General HUMPHREYS Chief of Staff: GENERAL: I have received the programme order for operations tomorrow. I think the…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 27, 1864. July 27, 1864. Major-General HUMPHREYS: I have 1,900 men in working details to-day, which will considerably diminish the number I can count upon…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 27, 1864. July 27, 1864. Major-General HUMPHREYS, Chief of Staff: ‘GENERAL: After careful study of my position in view of the operations which I am…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, August 5, 1864. August 5, 1864. Brig. Gen. S. WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Potomac: GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the accompanying communications…
“HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, June 24, 1864. “June 24, 1864. “Respectfully forwarded for the information of the major-general commanding ne No bl ibly attach to Captain McKnight for the loss of…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS, Camp near Petersburg, Va., August 8, 1864. Srr: In compliance with Special Orders, No. 209, headquarters Army of the Potomac, dated August 5, 1864, I…
HDQRS. SEVENTH REGIMENT. NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS, Near Petersburg, Va., August 8, 1864. SIR : * The march across the Chickahominy and the James, and the operations in front of Petersburg…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS, Camp near Petersburg, Va., August 9, 1864. GENERAL : June 14, crossed the James River from Wilcox’s Landing to Wind-Mill Point, and after marching some…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SECOND CORPS, June 26, 1864. June 26, 1864. Capt. THomas C. THOMPSON, CAPTAIN: You will immediately place the color bearer of your national colors (the missing one)…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST MAINE HEAVY ARTILLERY, In Front of Petersburg, Va., June 26, 1864. Lieut. W. J. RUSLING, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General : Str : In compliance with orders from division headquarters…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST REGIMENT U. S. SHARPSHOOTERS, Near Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1864. CAPTAIN : From June 16 until June 21 the regiment was employed daily on the advanced lines of…
HEADQUARTERS SIEGE ARTILLERY, Broadway Landing, Va., August 4, 1864. Lieut. Col. THoMAS ALLCOCK, Commanding Fourth New York Artillery : COLONEL: By direction of Colonel Abbot, I have the honor to…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH NEW YORK ARTILLERY, October 20, 1864. October 20, 1864.* halted at 3.30 p.m. Marched to Doctor Wilcox’s farm and bivouacked on the banks of the James River at…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, SECOND CORPS, June 24, 1864. COLONEL: In accordance with circular from headquarters Army of the Potomac, I have the honor to report that the cause of the…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, June 24, 1864. Respectfully forwarded. The presence of one or two good regimental officers would probably have stopped this discreditable affair long before the enemy reached the…
HEADQUARTERS 148TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, September 28, 1864. September 28, 1864, LIEUTENANT: In compliance with existing orders I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this…
HEADQUARTERS 145TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, September 28, 1864. September 28, 1864. ADJUTANT: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations of the regiment under my command during the…
HEADQUARTERS 145TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, August 10, 1864. August 10, 1864. Sir :* Left Cold Harbor on evening of the 12th [June], traveled all night and crossed the Chickahominy the 13th,…