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James Simons to Abner Doubleday, April 21, 1861
; HEADQUARTERS, SOUTH CAROLINA ARMY, April 21, 1861. ‘ Sullivan’s Island, April 21, 1861. Magor: I have the honor to report that on Tuesday morning, April _ 9, in obedience…
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Letters about 1861
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Unknown to George H. Thomas, December 19, 1861
HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH BRIGADE, Columbia, December 19, 1861. Commanding First Division, Lebanon, Ky.: GENERAL:* * * * AsfarasIcan ascertain, there is no certainty that Zollicoffer is on the other side of…
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W. A. Hoskins to Don Carlos Buell, December 18, 1861
HDQRS. TWELFTH REGIMENT KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS, December 18, 1861. December 18, 1861. GENERAL: To-day I took six of my companies and one section of Captain Hewett’s battery and proceeded in the…
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Albin F. Schoepf to William T. Sherman, December 12, 1861
HEADQUARTERS, Somerset, Ky., December 12, 1861. (Received December 16, 1861.) Commanding Division, Lebanon: GENERAL: Having obtained much information relative to the face of the adjacent country, its roads, streams, and…
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S. P. Carter, November 25, 1861
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp ‘Calvert, November 25, 1861. (Received November 29, 1861. ? Commanding, &e., Danville, KEy.: GENERAL: Yours of the 23d instan inclosing orders from department headquarters for…
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James A. Garfield to Lieutenant M. I. Benham, December 26, 1861
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are…
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Brigadier-General, December 9, 1861
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Mill Springs, Ky., December 9, 1861. SIR: Having been disappointed in having ferry-boats captured by the force sent on in advance with that object, I have had to…
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Isaac I. Stevens, December 9, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF PORT ROYAL, December 9, 1861. Beaufort, S. 0., December 9, 1861. GENERAL: I have received information that since my visit to Port Royal Ferry yesterday the Confederates…
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E.D. Townsend to William S. Rosecrans, October 6, 1861
HEADQUARTERS ARMY, Washington, October 6, 1861. Brigadier-General ROSECRANS, U.S. A., i Commanding Cross-Lanes, Western Virginia : By Tuesday next [8th instant], at the latest, 3,000 men will leave Pittsburgh to…
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John A. Dix to Gideon Welles, August 21, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Baltimore, Md., August 21, 1861. SIR: The Secretary of the Navy is in error in supposing that I have the means of effectually blockading the Patuxent.…