Camp Buckner, September 30, 1861. SIR: On the morning of the 26th instant Oolonel Rainsâ regiment, Colonel Statham, with a battalion of his regiment, and LieutenantColonel McNairyâs cavalry battalion, marched…
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 and Statham…
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Camp Buckner, Ky., October 2, 1861. SIR: I had posted Captain Bledsoe’s cavalry company near Jamestown, Tenn., and four other cavalry companies at intermediate points from there to…
Cairo, September 22, 1861. ” GENERAL: Yesterday I directed a reconnaissance in force to discover the position of the enemy. The main part of the troops from Norfolk and Fort…
Cairo, Ill., September 6, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. A. PAINE, Commanding, &c., Paducah, Ky.: Take possession of the wharf boats at the landing and make use of them for storehouses.…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAS £ MISSOURI, Cairo, Ill., September 6, 1861. I left Cairo at 10.30 o’elock last night, taking two gunboats and three steamboats, with the Ninth Illinois, under Gen.…
Cairo, IUl., August 23, 1861. SIR: In the affair of the little steamer W. D. Terry, taken by Captain Stembel, of gunboat Lexington, yesterday morning, at Paducah, Ky., I had…
August 25, 1861. > Saint Lowis, August 25, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith sot MUR E to my sites headquarters from Col. R. J. Oglesby, Righth…
December 17, 1861. No. 283. f Galveston, Tex., December 17, 1861. For special and immediate service on the Rio Grande, troops will be . received and mustered in for six…
GENERAL “RCRUM HDQRS. ARMY OF NEW MEXICO, December 14, 1861. No. 10. Fort Bliss, Tex., December 14, 1861. I. Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley assumes from this date the command…