Steamer Tigress, January 6, 1863. Rear-Admiral PORTER, Commanding Mississippi River Flotilla : ADMIRAL: I have the honor to transmit for your information a copy of the instructions* communicated to the…
Steamer Tigress, January 5, 1863. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Commanding, &c.: GENERAL: The following instructions are transmitted for your information. They only give an outline of the movement contemplated…
Washington, January 4, 1863. Major-General GRANT, Holly Springs, Miss. : A paper purporting to be General Orders, No. 11, issued by you December 17, has been presented here. By its…
Memphis, Tenn., January 3, 1863. Brigadier-General GoRMAN: I have sent your dispatches to General Grant. I do not like the look of things at Vicksburg. It is impossible for Grant…
Holly Springs, Miss., January 3, 1863. Some citizeus of Memphis were overheard to say that there was a determination that we should not run the Memphis and Charleston Railroad; that…
Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Mo., January 3, 1863. General Grant has ordered all my force now at Columbus to Memphis. This strips the country about Cairo and New Madrid,…
January 3, 1863. January 3, 1863â12 m. Brig. Gen. C. S. HAMILTON, Commanding Left Wing, La Grange, Tenn.: GENERAL: I have the honor to report that pursuant to your instructions…
Washington, January 2, 1863. Brig. Gen. THomAs A. DAviEs, Columbus, Ky.: You must use your best discretion about the number of troops to be retained at Columbus, until you can…
ORDEBS.] HEADQUARTERS FIRSâ AND SECOND DIVISIONS, RIGHT WING, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, January 1, 1863. January 1, 1863. You will at once stop all fortifying and intrenching of your present…
February 26, 1863. February 26, 1863. Masor: In obedience to instructions from Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson to furnish a report of the operations of the cavalry brigade connected with…