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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, January 30, 1862
Camp Buell, Paintsville, Ky., January 30, 1862. Sir: On the 24th instant I sent out two detachments, one of 150 infantry, which has just returned from the headwaters of Little…
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J. A. Garfield to Citizens of the Sandy Valley, January 16, 1862
Paintsville, Ky., January 16, 1862. Citizens of the Sandy Valley: I have come among you to restore the honor of the Union, and to bring back the old banner which…
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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, January 17, 1862
Camp Buell, Paintsville, Ky., January 17, 1862. DEAR SIR: In my last report to you reasons were given why I did not move forward to Prestonburg with my whole force.…
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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, January 14, 1862
Camp Buell, Paintsville, January 14, 1862. DEAR SIR: At the date of my last report (January 8) I was preparing to pursue the enemy. The transportation of my stores from…
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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, January 8, 1862
Paintsville, Ky., January 8, 1862. DEAR SIR: On Sunday, January 5, I drove in several small scouting parties of the enemy, killing 1 of them. On Monday, January 6, I…
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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, January 4, 1862
Camp Pardee, January 4, 1862. DEAR SIR: Shortly after the date of my last report to you, of December 26, I received intelligence that the enemy had retreated to a…
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J. A. Garfield to J. B. Fry, December 26, 1861
Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. Str: I advanced from Louisa on the 23d instant, with nine companies of the Forty-second Ohio, three companies of the Fourteenth Kentucky, and Major McLaughlinâs…
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J. A. Garfield to Don Carlos Buell, December 26, 1861
Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are fortifying. The Fourteenth…
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James B. Fry to HDQRS. OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT-GENERALâS OFFICE, _, January 20, 1862
GENERAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, January 20, 1862. No. 4a. Louisville, Ky., January 20, 1862. The general commanding takes occasion to thank Colonel Garfield and his troops…
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James B. Fry to James A. Garfield, January 24, 1862
Louisville, January 24, 1862. Col. JAMES A. GARFIELD, Paintsville, Ky.: Sim: Your official report of the fatio of Middle Creek has been received and your success will be duly noticed…
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O. D. Greene to James A. Garfield, January 20, 1862
January 20, 1862. : : Louisville, Ky., January 20, 1862. Colonel GARFIELD, Commanding Highteenth Brigade, Prestonburg, Ky. : CoLONEL: Your dispatches of your attack upon the enemy at Paintsville and…
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James B. Fry to James A. Garfield, January 3, 1862
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., January 3, 1862. Colonel GARFIELD: Yours of the 2d instant* has been received. The general would send you two mountain howitzers, but he is under the…
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Unknown to James A. Garfield, December 28, 1861
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., December 28, 1861. Colonel GARFIELD, Commanding Eighteenth Brigade, Louisa, Ky.: The following dispatch was sent this day to Lieut. M. L. Benham, Forty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers,…
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D. â¬. BUELL to James A. Garfield, December 17, 1861
December 17, 1861. Louisville, AY December 17, 1861. Colonel GARFIELD, Forty-second Ohio Regiment, Commanding Brigade: SIR: The brigade organized under your command is intended to operate against the rebel force…
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Unknown to James A. Garfield, January 14, 1862
Louisville, January 14, 1862. Colonel Garfield, ecmmanding Eighteenth Brigade, reports that on the 7th instant he attacked and drove the enemy from his intienchments at Paintsville, killing 3 and wounding…
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T. C. Hindman to D. G. WHITE, Brigadier- General, December 19, 1861
Cave City, Ky., December 19, 1861. SIR: At 8 a. m. on the 17th instant I moved towards Woodsonville, for the purpose of breaking up the railroad from the vicinity…
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Unknown, December 18, 1861
Camp Wood, Ky., December 18, 1861. Respectfully forwarded. By direction of the general commanding the division I threw two regiments across the river to the assistance of the Thirty-second, though…
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James B. Fry to HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, CAMP Woop, December 27, 1861
December 27, 1861. No. 23. Louisville, Ky., December 27, 1861. The general commanding takes pleasure in bringing to notice the gallant conduct of a portion of Colonel Willich’s regiment, Thirty-second…
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Don Carlos Buell to ' Brig. Gen. LORENZO THOMAS, February 8, 1862
Louisville, February 8, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith the official report of a skirmish at Rowlettâs Station, south of Green River, Kentucky, on the 17th of…
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Brigadier- General to S. Cooper, December 14, 1861
North of the River opposite Mill Springs, December 14, 1861. SIR: On the 2d instant I informed you that I had, from the south bank of the river, shelled the…