HEADQUARTERS LA FOURCHE DISTRICT, Thibodeaux, La., September 3, 1864. Captain WASHBURNE, U.S. Navy, Brashear City, La.: A party of some 300 rebels attacked a scouting party near Napoleonville on the…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Morganza, September 3, 1864. Respectfully returned to Brigadier-General Dennis, with the information that Colonel Sheldon’s command will be subject to his orders on the passage to…
HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, September 3, 1864. September 3, 1864. Respectfully transmitted for the information of Capt. B. Wilson, assistant adjutant-general. L. A. SHELDON, Colonel, Commanding.{Third indorsement.]
Morganza, La. Morganza, La., September 3, 1864. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, SECOND Div., 19TH ARMY CORPS: CAPTAIN: This morning I received orders from Brigadier-General McGinnis, commanding Third Division, to embark three regiments…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Morganza, La., September 3, 1864. Brigadier-General DENNIS, Commanding Second Division: GENERAL: The general commanding directs that you delay your departure until Colonel Sheldon and Lieutenant-Colonel Crebs…
SPECIAL ORDERS,) WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, September 3, 1864. No. 292. Washington, September 3, 1864. 41, Paragraph 39, Special Orders, No. 273, August 17, 1864, from this office,* relieving…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, Tenn., September 3, 1864. Maj. Gen. E. R. 8. CANBY, Commanding Military Division of West Mississippi : GENERAL: I have just received a letter…
Fort Ridgely Fort Ridgely, September 2, 1864. CAPTAIN: I have just received your dispatch of the 31st ultimo,* and am greatly surprised at the news of Indian troubles on the…
Saint Paul, Minn. Saint Paul, Minn., September 2, 1864. Maj. Gen. JOHN POPE, Milwaukee : GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that I have received official dispatches from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST, Milwaukee, Wis., September 2, 1864. Brig. Gen. H. H. SIBLEY, Commanding District of Minnesota, Saint Paul: GENERAL: Your dispatch of yesterday has been received and…