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17,141 lettersNovember 18, 1861. ; Baltimore, November 18, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose copies of a dispatch from Brig. Gen. H. H. Lockwood, in command of the expedition…
Baltimore, November 15, 1861. DEAR GENERAL: I inclose a copy of a proclamation I sent down to General Lockwood.* It was sent into Virginia to-day. I have given him instructions…
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, Md., November 25, 1861. GENERAL: I have received your three dispatches of the 22d instant, dated at Drummondtown, and am much gratified with the judicious and efficient manner…
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, November 21, 1861. GENERAL: Ascertain, if possible, the parties who committed the – depredations referred to in your letter and order, and send them back, -as directed, in…
Baltimore, November 21, 1861. âGENERAL: Lieutenant Coffin, commanding the Hercules, will leave to-morrow for Pungoteague Inlet. I sent letters to you to-day by mail, via Salisbury, with my last instructions.…
: HEADQUARTERS, November 20, 1861. -Baltimore, November 20, 1861. GENERAL: Lieutenant Coffin, of the Hercules, arrived with his vessel to-day, just missing the sloop with coal. He has some repairs…
Baltimore, November 18, 1861. GENERAL : Lieutenant Dix arrived this morning with your dispatch, communicating the gratifying intelligence that the rebel organizations in your neighborhood had dissolved. You are right…
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, November 14, 1861. GENERAL: I send you 500 of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Colonel Amory, which will make your command a very formidable one. I will send…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKERâS DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 14, 1861. GENERAL: The right of my camp was enlivened to-day by a spirited contest for a prize in the shape…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, Fort Lyon, December 9, 1861. Ihave seen Colonel-Berry, Fourth Maine Regiment. On the return of the troops to the Accotink 7 of the cavalry were absent. Captain of…
Camp Lyon, near Alexandria, Va., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: In pursuance of your orders, received this morning through Captain Norvell, at Pohick Church, I at once proceeded with the Fifth…
Fort Lyon, November 13, 1861. GENERAL: The enemy having made a demonstration against our pickets on the 11th instant, I sent out two small parties of cavalry to reconnoiter. On…
Camp Fenion, near Port Tobacco, Md., November 11, 1861. GENERAL: Shortly after my arrival at this point Captain Wilkinson, of Company I of this regiment, by my orders seized several…
Second Brigade, Hooker’s Division, November 12, 1861. CAPTAIN: Herewith I have the honor to inelose Col. Charles K. Grahamâs report of a reconnaissance of Mathias Point and the peninsula of…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKERâS DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: It was reported to me that the rebels were planting a battery at Boydâs Hole, which threatened to…
Pughtown, February 17, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the engagement into which we were surprised on the morning of the 14th instant: Our…
: HEADQUARTERS, Cumberland, Md., January 17, 1862. GENERAL: I herewith inclose you Colonel Dunningâs report of the expedition to Blueâs Gap on the 8th [7th] instant. ; I am happy…
HEADQUARTERS BANKSâ DIVISION, December 22, 1861. SIR: Telegram from Colonel Leonard states as follows: WILLIAMSPORT, 21ST. Canal-boats running to-day both ways. Two guns were brought to Little Georgetown and some…
Frederick, Md., December 20, 1861. SIR: I received to-night your dispatch of 5 p.m. and the several telegrams and reports* made since the enemy appeared on the river, and am…
HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT, Unger’s Store, Morgan County, Virginia, January 11, 1862. MAJOR: Though on the 4th instant Bath and all that part of Morgan County east of the Big Caeapon…