HEADQUARTERS MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, Wardensville, May 31, 1862. Your telegram of 31st [30th?] received. Main column at this place. Roads heavy and weather terrible. Heavy storm of rain most of yesterday…
: HEADQUARTERS MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, On the march, May 25, 1862. Dispatch received. Our army will do the best to answer your expectations. J. O. FREMONT, Major-General, Commanding.President LINCOLN.644 OPERATIONS IN…
GENERAL WAR DEPARTMENT, August 31, 1864. CouRT-MARTIAL ORDERS, ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE, No. 274, \ Washington, August 31, 1864, The sentences “to be hung,” awarded by a military commission and promulgated in…
HEADQUARTERS, Newtown, Md., November 16, 1861. GENERAL: I this morning sent Captain Knight with a flag of truce to the headquarters of the rebel force below. I inclose his letter…
A HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, September 22, 1861. : ; Saint Louis, September 22, 1861.. A. LINCOLN, President, Washington : 3 Your dispatch received. I have immediately ordered Captain Foote with…
ACAPULCO ACAPULCO, May 17, 1862. (Via San Francisco, May 29.) Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President : France will take and keep Acapulco and Western Mexico. Prevent them. WM. PICKERING, Governor of…
Post Arkansas, January 16, 1863. His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States : Sir: Herewith I have taken the liberty to transmit a copy of a communication to…
Springfield, Ill., December 12, 1862. His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Since my return here on the 25th October last, and receipt of orders to assist the Governors of Illinois, Indiana, and…
HEADQUARTERS MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, Mount Jackson, June 15, 1862. I respectfully remind the President that when assigned to this command I was informed that I should have a corps of 35,000…
Mount Jackson, June 14, 1862. I suggest for the consideration of the President that the condition of affairs here imperatively requires that some position be immediately made strong enough to…