New York, September 13, 1861. Capt. RUFUS SAXTON, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army: SIR: You will provide transportation in good, sound, and safe steamers for fourteen regiments of infantry from…
GENERAL ORDERS, ! HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, September 9, 1861. No. 1. New York, September 9, 1861. I. The following-named officers are announced upon the staff of the eommanding officer…
Washington, August 27, 1861. His Excellency E. D. MoRGAN, Governor of New York: SIR: This will be handed you by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, who will explain to your…
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 27, 1861. SIR: This will be sent you by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, U. S. A., who has heretofore communicated with you on the project…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, D. O., August 27, 1861. [General THOMAS W. SHERMAN :] SIR: Your letter of the 20th instant having been submitted to the Secretary of War,…
Washington, August 10, 1861. General T. W. Sherman, having been charged with the preparation of an expedition to rendezvous on Long Island Sound, will, on the part of this Department,…
Washington, August 11, 1861. Brig. Gen. THomAS W. SHERMAN: SIR: You will proceed to the capitals of the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and confer…
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF ENGINEER’S OFFICE, Hilton Head, S. C., December 1, 1861. Brig. Gen. THomas W. SHERMAN, Commanding Expeditionary Corps, Hilton Head, S. C.: SIR: Agreeably to your orders, I proceeded…
January 4, 1861. GENERAL: I avail myself of your suggestion to-day relative to the action of the 1st merely to report that a detachment of my regiment, under Maj. G.…
November 14, 1861. No. 99. ! Washington, November 14, 1861. The Major-General Commanding announces to the Army with sincere pleasure, 1st, the brilliant reduction of the forts in Port Royal…