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John A. Dix, November 18, 1861
HEADQUARTERS, November 18, 1861. ; Baltimore, November 18, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose copies of a dispatch from ern Shore, and of a letter to him from…
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John A. Dix to Nathaniel P. Banks, November 14, 1861
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, November 14, 1861. GENERAL: I send you 500 of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Colonel Amory, which will make your command a very formidable one. I will send…
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Joseph Hooker, November 14, 1861
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER’S DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 14, 1861. GENERAL: The right of my camp was enlivened to-day by a spirited contest for a prize in the shape…
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H. D. Terry, November 12, 1861
HDQRS. FIFTH REGIMENT MICHIGAN INFANTRY, Camp Lyon, near Alexandria, Va., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: In pursuance of your orders, received this morning through Captain Norvell, at Pohick Church, I at…
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Samuel P. Heintzelman to Seth Williams, November 13, 1861
HEADQUARTERS OF DIVISION, Fort Lyon, November 13, 1861. GENERAL: The enemy having made a demonstration against our pickets on the 11th instant, I sent out two small parties of cavalry…
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Charles K. Graham, November 11, 1861
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH REGIMENT EXCELSIOR BRIGADE, Camp Fenion, near Port Tobacco, Md., November 11, 1861. GENERAL: Shortly after my arrival at this point Captain Wilkinson, of Company I of this regiment,…
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Daniel E. Sickles to Charles K. Graham, November 12, 1861
HEADQUARTERS EXCELSIOR BRIGADE, Second Brigade, Hooker’s Division, November 12, 1861. CAPTAIN: Herewith I have the honor to inelose Col. Charles K. Graham’s report of a reconnaissance of Mathias Point and…
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Joseph Hooker to Seth Williams, November 12, 1861
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER’S DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: It was reported to me that the rebels were planting a battery at Boyd’s Hole, which threatened to…
Telegram
N. P. Banks, December 22, 1861
HEADQUARTERS BANKS’ DIVISION, December 22, 1861. December 22, 1861. SIR: Telegram from Colonel Leonard states as follows: WILLIAMSPORT, 21ST. Canal-boats running to-day both ways. Two guns were brought to Little…
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S. H. Leonard to George B. McClellan, December 20, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, Frederick, Md., December 20, 1861. SIR: I received to-night your dispatch of 5 p.m. and the several telegrams and reports* made since the enemy appeared on the river,…