Cairo Cairo, November 21, 1861. Capt. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General, Saint Louis, Mo.: General Orders, No. 1, of the 19th instant, -— — of the Missouri, is just received.…
HEADQUARTERS, Crab Orchard, November 20, 1861. Brig. Gen. 8. P. CARTER, Commanding Camp Calvert: GENERAL: Your dispatch [of 19th instant] has just been received. My orders are to move towards…
HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE, Camp Calvert, November 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, U. S. A., Commanding, Éc., Crab Orchard: GENERAL: I have just received information that the rebels,…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., November 19, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Division, Crab Orchard, Ky. : SIR: General Buell directs me to say that the orders he has…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, Calhoun, Ky., December 30, 1861. GENERAL: In the fight just beyond SRE due we lost 8 killed and 8, perhaps 13, captured. ‘ Over 400 rebel cavalry…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, Calhoun, Ky., December 29, 1861. CAPTAIN: I regret to inform you that on yesterday, as a command of from a reconnaissance, they were pursued and surprised by…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, i Georges Creek, December 28, 1861. Col. JONATHAN CRANOR, Commanding Fortieth Ohio Volunteers: DEAR SIR: We now have reached a point from which we can begin to…
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH BRIGADE, Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. Sir: I advanced from Louisa on the 23d instant, with nine companies of the Forty-second Ohio, three companies of the Fourteenth Kentucky,…
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…
HEADQUARTERS ADVANCE GUARD, Cave City, Ky., December 19, 1861. SIR: At 8 a. m. on the 17th instant I moved towards Woodsonville, for the purpose of breaking up the railroad…