Henry Washington Benham was an American soldier and civil engineer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Savannah River, April 3, 1802. General H. W. BENHAM, Commanding First Division Department of the South: DEAR GENERAL: Your dispatch is just received, and as I…
Camp Gauley Mountain Camp Gauley Mountain, November 3, 1861. Colonel Woods has been ordered to you temporarily for duty. Assign him to command Tenth Regiment. Let Captain Amis and a…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 4, 1861. Your dispatch received. Three boats will be sent you this evening. You will find the wagon-body arrangement makes a solid and capacious float of…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 6, 1861. We must have Loop Creek up beyond Taylor’s and the ridge between it and the valley of the Fayette road. Secure this with as…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Savannah River, April 4, 1862. General H. W. BENHAM, Commanding First Division, Department of the South: GENERAL: In my communication of yesterday I referred to the…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Tybee and Cockspur Islands, April 23, 1862. GENERAL: You showed me General Viele’s report of the operations of his command on the Savannah River. As I…
HEADQUARTERS, Fernandina, Fla., April 27, 1862. Report in ease of a party of men belonging to Company I, Ninth Maine Regiment, captured by the enemy on the 10th of April,…
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS, April 30, 1863. April 30, 1863—3 p. m. [Captain CUSHING :] i273 Received message from Major-General Butterfield in regard to General Reynolds being threatened. JOHN SEDGWICK, Major-General.…
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, City Point, Va., March 25, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. BENHAM, Commanding Defenses of City Point: The lieutenant-general directs that the bridge at Deep…