HEADQUARTERS MOCALUS DIVISION, November 27, 1861. November 27, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of Col. G. D. Bayard, First Regiment Cavalry, Pennsylvania Reserves, of…
HEADQUARTERS OF DIVISION, 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…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER’S DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: It was reported to me that the rebels were planting a battery at Boyd’s Hole, which threatened to…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAO, September 7, 1862. September 7, 1862. SIR: I have been applied to by General Stone for permission to serve with the Army during the impending…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, November 2, 1861. GENERAL: The persistent attacks made upon me by the friends (so . called), of the lamented late Colonel Baker, through the newspaper…
HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF OBSERVATION, Poolesville, October 29, 1861. = As much time must elapse before complete reports can be obtained from the various commanders of regiments, I have the honor…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, Alexandria, Va., October 6, 1861. SIR: I received information on the 3d instant that a body of the enemy’s cavalry was at Pohick Church, about 12 miles…
x WARRENTON JUNCTION x WARRENTON JUNCTION, March 29, 1862. General S. WILLIAMS: Express just received from General Howard. He drove the enemy across the Rappahannock Bridge, and is now in…
PRESIDENT’S GENERAL WAR ORDER, EXECUTIVE MANSION, TE IN O EO. Washington, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, November 5, 1861. Brig. Gen. SETH WILLIAMS, Adjutant-General at Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: I have this moment received Major-General…