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General Buell, December 30, 1861
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…
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James B. Fry to Captain Bacon, December 29, 1861
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…
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Unknown to Jonathan Cranor, December 28, 1861
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…
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James A. Garfield to James B. Fry, December 26, 1861
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,…
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J. A. Garfield, 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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Thomas C. Hindman to D. G. WHITE, Brigadier-General, December 19, 1861
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…
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R. W. Johnson, December 18, 1861
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH BRIGADE, Camp Wood, Ky., December 18, 1861. Respectfully forwarded. By direction of the general commanding the division I threw two regiments across the river to the assistance of…
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Brigadier-General to Samuel Cooper, December 14, 1861
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, BEECH GROVE, K. Y., North of the River opposite Mill Springs, December 14, 1861. SIR: On the 2d instant I informed you that I had, from the south…
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A. Schoepf, December 8, 1861
HEADQUARTERS FIRST KENTUCKY BRIGADE, Somerset, December 8, 1861. GENERAL: We met the enemy’s scouts this evening about 3 miles to the west of the village; the collision took place between…
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John P. Cook to Ulysses S. Grant, December 1, 1861
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE, Fort Holt, Ky., Sunday, December 1, 1861. At 3.15. p. m. Lieutenant Mathie, commanding Company F, Sereni Illinois, otio of the day, reported to these headquarters the…