SMITHS HEADQUARTERS, NEAR CHAIN BRIDGE, September 11, 1861. September 11, 1861. General Smith made reconnaissanee with 2,000 men to Lewinsville; remained several hours, and completed examination of the ground. 168…
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 20, 1861. Brig. Gen. HENRY A. WISE, Gauley River, via Lewisburg, Va. : = SIR: You are instructed to turn over all the…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE KANAWHA, Camp on the Road, September 12, 1861. SIR: Information had reached me for some number of days that a heavy force was advancing towards my…
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH REG? O. V. INFANTRY, September 11, 1861. je i — Camp Scott, Va., September 11, 1861. — Se: I have the honor to submit the following statement of…
HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE, Camp Tennally, September 5, 1861. GENERAL: In relation to my command, I have the honor to report . that the enemy having opened fire on the Seventh…
HEADQUARTERS, Hunters Chapel, August 30, 1861. I have the honor to report that this morning, while reconnoitering from the top of Mrs. Hunter’s house, the enemy was observed to send…
CLARKSBURG CLARKSBURG, August 28, 1861. General Cox reports, under date 27th, Seventh Ohio, under Tyler, advanced regiment at Cross-Lanes, below Summersville, was surprised by Floyd while eating his breakfast, and…
HEADQUARTERS, MARLBOROUGH POINT, August 23, 1861. August 23, 1861. COLONEL: I have the honor to report that this afternoon at about 4.30 o’clock the enemy’s steamer Yankee and a tug…
: – : HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ES s Washington, D. C., November 11, 1861. GENERAL: In Belen you to the command of the Department of the Missouri, it is…
CAMP WILDCAT CAMP WILDCAT, October 2, 1861. General GEORGE H. THOMAS: Since General Carter arrived wehave been over considerable country. The general thinks when the work is completed we will…