William Whann Mackall was a Seminole Wars veteran, Mexican-American War veteran and Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a United States Army officer for 24 years before he resigned his commission in order to join the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he was a farmer in Fairfax County, Virginia.
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., February 18, 1861. MAJOR: I have the honor to forward, for the information of the general commanding the department, the accompanying reports. I dispatched…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, March 4, 1861. No. 25. J San Francisco, March 4, 1861. Companies A and B, Third Artillery, will take post at the…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Crook, Cal., March 7, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army: MAJOR: Having received some rather indefinite rumors that the Hot Creek (that is the…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, March 23, 1861. No. 37. y : San Francisco, March 23, 1861. ment at Fort Dalles and take command. By order of Brigadier-General…
Fort BRAGG, CAL. Fort BRAGG, CAL., April 15, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: I have the honor to report that, in…
Fort BRAGG, CAL. Fort BRAGG, CAL., April 15, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: I have the honor to report that, in…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, April 27, 1861. No. 67. San Francisco, April 27, 1861. 1. Lieut. Thomas L. Casey, engineers, is relieved from duty with the Sappers…
FORT GASTON, CAL. FORT GASTON, CAL., April 28, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, U.S. Army, MAJOR: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from your…
FORT GASTON, CAL. FORT GASTON, CAL., April 28, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, U.S. Army, MAJOR: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from your…
FORT GASTON, CAL. FORT GASTON, CAL., April 28, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, U.S. Army, MAJOR: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from your…
FORT GASTON, CAL. FORT GASTON, CAL., April 28, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, U.S. Army, MAJOR: I have the honor to report that in compliance with instructions received from your…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, April 29, 1861. No. 68. j San Francisco, April 29, 1861. 1. Fort Mojave will be abandoned and the garrison and public property…
Fort BRAGG, CAL. Fort BRAGG, CAL., April 30, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: I have the honor to report that, having supplied the detachment now…
Fort BRAGG, CAL. Fort BRAGG, CAL., April 30, 1861. Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: I have the honor to report that, having supplied the detachment now…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, May 7, 1861. The “bear flag” was raised at El Monte, twelve miles distant, on the 4th instant. The escort was, say, forty horsemen. I have,…
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, May 7, 1861. No. 77. San Francisco, May 7, 1861. Special Orders, No. 76, is so far modified as not to prescribe the…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, May 8, 1861. NORKI } San Francisco, May 8, 1861. Company K, First Dragoons (Carleton’s), will be detached from Fort Tejon, and…
Mare Island Mare Island, May 10, 1861. Maj. W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant General, San Francisco, Cal. : MAJOR: I am in receipt of your communication of yesterday’s date. I…
Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., May 11, 1861. Asst, Adjt. Gen., Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : MAJOR: On the 7th instant I wrote a dispatch…
ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE, Los Angeles, Cal., May 12, 1861. MAJOR: There was no trouble here whatever to-day. Having failed to do what they had promised to do, I have no…
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Camp Buckner, Ky., September 30, 1861. SIR: The detachments whose movements I réported to you on the 26th instant are returning into camp. The commands of Colonels Rains…
HEADQUARTERS CUMBERLAND ARMY, Dover, Tenn., February 18, 1862. Sir: It becomes my duty to report that the remains of this army, after winning some brilliant successes both in repulsing the…