HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 5, 1863. General [MAGRUDER]: I have the honor to inclose copies of orders sent to Major McKee; also copies of telegrams from Lieutenant-Generals Smith…
GENERAL ORDERS, ) HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI, July 4, 1863. No. 24. i Shreveport, La., July 4, 1863. I. In obedience to General Orders, No. 70, Paragraph II, Section…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Monroe, La., July 4, 1863. General S. CooPER, Richmond : GENERAL: Major-General Magruder writes to me that the agent of the Treasury Department for the purchasing of…
Houston, Tex. Houston, Tex., July 3, 1863. Lieut. Gen. E. KirBy SMITH, Commanding Trans-Mississippi Department : GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your several communications of…
Houston, Tex. Houston, Tex., July 3, 1863. Brig. Gen. H. P. BEE, Commanding Western Sub-District : GENERAL: I am instructed by Major-General Magruder to state that in consideration of the…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., July 1, 1863. GENERAL: Your letter of the 23d ultimo,j communicating the successful attack by you on the enemy’s works at Brashear City on the…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., June 30, 1863. Major-General MAGRUDER, Commanding District of Texas: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant,…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, East of Minden, En route to Monroe, June 30, 1863. GENERAL: I am directed by Lieut. Gen. E. K. Smith to say to you to couutermand any…
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, La., June 29, 1863. GENERAL: I send to-day, by stage, in charge of an ordnance officer, 300,000 percussion caps consigned to you. The garrison at Vicksburg…
UNOFFICIAL. HEADQUARTERS, &C., Houston, Tex., June 29, 1863. Lieut. Gen. E. KirBy SMITH, Commanding Trans-Mississippi Department : GENERAL: In my letter of yesterday to Brigadier-General Boggs, your chief of staff,…