HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY, August 8, 1864. August 8, 1864. SIR :* June 13, crossed the Chickahominy at Long Bridge, and on the evening of the 14th we reached the…
HEADQUARTERS 155TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, August 7, 1864. August 7, 1864. SIR :* On the (oe une] marched a distance of ten miles and go into camp near Charles City Court-House.…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864—9.40 a.m. Major-General HUMPHREYS: GENERAL: I find that the flag I saw was the enemy’s, and that they have reoccupied all…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864. Major-General WARREN: The attack ordered on the two-gun battery is suspended. GEO. G. MEADE, Major-General, Commanding. *For copy of this…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864—6.40 a. m. General CRAWFORD: General Burnside has secured a lodgment in the enemy’s lines. I send you a dispatch just…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864. Major-General WARREN: Your dispatch is received. The major-general commanding directs that you go in with Burnside, taking the two-gun battery.…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 29, 1864. July 29, 1864—10 p.m. Major-General HUMPHREYS: i I have seen General Burnside and my division commanders. My arrangements for to-morrow were easy to…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 29, 1864. July 29, 1864—4 p. m. Major-General HUMPHREYS Chief of Staff: GENERAL: I have received the programme order for operations tomorrow. I think the…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 27, 1864. July 27, 1864. Major-General HUMPHREYS: I have 1,900 men in working details to-day, which will considerably diminish the number I can count upon…
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, July 27, 1864. July 27, 1864. Major-General HUMPHREYS, Chief of Staff: ‘GENERAL: After careful study of my position in view of the operations which I am…