HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Chambersburg, Pa., June 12, 1861. Sir: I yesterday notified you of the occupation of Cumberland by the Indiana regiment under Colonel Wallace, and the fact of…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1861. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Headquarters of the Army, Washington City : Sir: I am in receipt of two telegrams of this date from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pa., May 23, 1861. A. A. G., Headquarters of the Army, Washington City: Sie: In compliance with verbal intimation from the General-in-Chief I present for…
HAGERSTOWN HAGERSTOWN, July 25, 1861. Sir: I am possessed of reliable information that a messenger left this place for Baltimore with a dispatch from the Confederate Army to the rebels…
DEPARTMENT OF ANNAPOLIS, Federal Hill, Baltimore, May 14, 1861. A detachment of the forces of the Federal Government under my command have occupied the city of Baltimore for the purpose,…
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES ARMORY, Harper’s Ferry, Va., April 18, 1861—9 p. m.. Sir: Up to the present time no assault or attempt to seize the Government property here has been…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal., October 31, 1861. COLONEL: I deem it my duty to submit to the General-in-Chief the condition of affairs in the Southern District…
Washington Washington, July 16, 1861. Lieut. Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT, Commanding the Army: GENERAL: In consequence of the order removing the troops from the Oregon route, urgent applications have been made…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF F’REDERICKSBURG, Fredericksburg, Va., June 2, 1861. Sir: I have the honor to state, for the information of the commanding general, that four of the enemy’s armed steamers…
June 6, 1861. June 6, 1861. Lieutenant-General Scott: Str: I have the honor to report the arrival of Colonel Townsend with the Third New York Regiment of Volunteers, 800 strong,…