GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS, Corinth, Miss., August 25, 1862. GENERAL: Colonel Mason, with portion of the Seventy-first Ohio surrendered Clarksville to the guerrillas. Prisoners were paroled and sent down the river.…
Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Memphis: My DEAR GENERAL: It was determined before I arrived here that gold and Treasury notes should be paid…
GENERAL ROSECRANS’ HEADQUARTERS, August 19, 1862. August 19, 1862. General GRANT: Mobile Advertiser of 15th here. Breckinridge was whipped at Vicksburg;* General Clark and two colonels killed. They lost 250…
Jackson, Tenn., August 18, 1862. Col. I. N. HAYNIE, Bethel: Send prisoners and horses by rail under guard to this place. If you canât send the horses by rail turn…
Washington, August 18, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss. : As General Buellâs communications in Tennessee and Kentucky are seriously threatened your communication with him should be kept open if possible.…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, August 16, 1862. IX. The movement of troops directed by Paragraph I, Special Orders, No. 211, from these headquarters, will be deferred.…
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, August 15, 1862. I, The Second Division will proceed to relieve the troops of First and Fourth Divisions now guarding the Memphis…
August 14, 1862. August 14, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth : The following dispatch has been received by General Granger fromâ Colonel Sheridan has returned. Captured 4 secesh, also 300 head…
August 13, 1862. No. 177. } Memphis, August 13, 1862. Colonel Grierson, Sixth Illinois Cavalry, will detail a force of 150 good men, well mounted, armed, and equipped, and provided…
August 13, 1862. way August 13, 1862. Brigadier-General GRANGER, Rienzi: Make adequate provision for cavalry to scout and watch the front of the Third Division at Jacintoâa battalion under a…