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Unknown to E. A. Paine, September 6, 1861
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.…
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Letters about 1861
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Unknown, September 6, 1861
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.…
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R. N. Stembel to Oglesby, August 23, 1861
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…
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J. â¬. FRÃMONT to Simon B. Buckner, August 25, 1861
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…
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T Saml. Boyer Davis to ORDERS, } HDQRS. ARMY OF NEw MEXICO, A. G. O, December 17, 1861
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…
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Unknown, December 14, 1861
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…
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D. D. Shea to HEADQUARTERS, CAMP HENRY McCULLOcH, December 7, 1861
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, December 7, 1861. No. 227. i Galveston, Tex., December 7, 1861. I. Col. John C. Moore, of Moore’s regiment, is relieved from the…
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: . E. B. Nichols to Hnpqns. THIRD REGT TEXAS INFANTRY, PRov. ARMY, December 6, 1861
December 6, 1861. . Galveston, Tex., December 6, 1861. Capt. E. B. H. SCHNEIDER, Commanding at South Battery: SIR: It is evident, from the movements of the enemy, that they…
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Saml. Boyer Davis to HpQns. THIRD RE@r TEXAS INFANTRY, PROV. ARMY, December 3, 1861
Galveston, Tex., December 3, 1861. SIR: I have been directed by the commanding general to furnish you with the following memorandum of troops to be called into service, if possible,…
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Unknown to H. E. McCulloch, December 3, 1861
December 3, 1861. No. 206. Galveston, Tex., December 3, 1861. I. Col. H. E. McCulloch, First Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles, is, until further orders, assigned to the immediate command of…