Brigadier General William Robertson Boggs was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was noted as a military engineer who constructed the fortifications that protected some of the Confederacy's most important seaports.
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 16, 1863. GENERAL: You are hereby directed to remain at Grand Ecore with your brigade until further orders from these headquarters. You will endeavor…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TEXAS, &C., Near Millican, September 4, 1863. Brig. Gen. W. R. Boaas, Chief of Staff; GENERAL: Ihave received your letter of the 28th ultimo, and notified you…