WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT, October 17, 1861. General MCCLELLAN: If Generals Stevens and Sherman want the New York Seventy-ninth to go with expedition, can you spare them without serious loss…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., October 7, 1861. Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Army of the Potomac: GENERAL: In reply to the letter of your assistant adjutant-general, —…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., September 19, 1861. Maj. Gen. G. B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Army of the Potomac: . GENERAL: There are several companies in Caroline, Queen Anne, and…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAO, Washington City, September 6, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to suggest the following proposition, with the – request that the necessary authority be at…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, i Poolesville, Md., September 4, 1861. Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding Army of the Potomac : GENERAL: Your telegram of this date I have had…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., August 23, 1861. GENERAL: The inclosed letter, which I think of sufficient importance to be submitted to you, only conveys intelligence which I am…
SENECA SENECA, August 22, 1861. MAJOR: Ihave the honor to report, for the information of the MajorGeneral Commanding, that all is quiet throughout my lines; no change opposite. ; This…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 22, 1861. Major-General MCCLELLAN, U. S. A., Commanding Department of the. Potomac : – SIR: The General-in-Chief directs me to say that, on information…
Near Buckeystown, Md. Near Buckeystown, Md., August 20, 1861. General GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Washington, D. C.: ; I have near here 10,860 infantry, 549 artillerymen, 333 cavalry, and fourteen pieces…
HEADQUARTERS, Camp Williams, December 6, 1861. GENERAL: I transmit with this a report of Brigadier-General Newton on the attack made upon our pickets on Monday last. The statements in it…