HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE, Camp Qui Vive, November 17, 1861. Respectfully forwarded. M RUE : I highly commend Major Martin, his officers and men, for this highly creditable affair. Major Ball,…
: HEADQUARTERS, Centreville, November 28, 1861. Sir: I have the pleasure to transmit herewith the reports of three successful skirmishes by parties of our cavalry,* and respectfully invite the attention…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, Arlington, November 16, 1861. This report relates to an affair not creditable to the officer commanding the escort. He is not here to justify himself, but from the…
HEADQUARTERS GENERAL KEYES’ BRIGADE, Uptows Hill, Va., November 16, 1861. It has just been reported that a foraging party sent out from this brigade this morning has been cut off.…
HEADQUARTERS, Newtown, Md., November 16, 1861. GENERAL: I this morning sent Captain Knight with a flag of truce to the headquarters of the rebel force below. I inclose his letter…
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, November 15, 1861. DEAR GENERAL: I inclose a copy of a proclamation I sent down to General Lockwood.* It was sent into Virginia to-day. I have given him…
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…
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…
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…
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…