HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE, Near Falls Church, Va., June 25, 1864—11 a. m.. CoLoNEL Major Forbes has just returned from Centreville, and I am able to send a clearer account of…
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE, Near Falls Church, Va., June 24, 1864. Cotonztt: I have the honor to report that a patrol from the camp of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry, consisting…
HEADQUARTERS, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., June 10, 1864. Information has just been received from Colonel”Thompson, commanding the scouting party just sent to Duffield’s, that a detachment of cavalry from Duffield’s…
HEADQUARTERS RESERVE DIVISION, Martinsburg, Va., June 2, 1864. Respectfully forwarded to department headquarters. This report was called for immediately on the return of Lieutenant-Colonel Root, Fifteenth New York Cavalry, but…
HEADQUARTERS, Staunton, Va., June 17, 1864. GENERAL: Pursuant to your telegram of the 3d instant, I took command of this post on the 4th. A few hours after doing so…
HEADQUARTERS POST, Staunton, June 15, 1864. Masor: Your note of the 13th reached me yesterday by return courier. It states ‘”‘McNeill and Gilmor are in the Valley below.” Major Gilmor…
SIGNAL OFFICER OF THE ARMY, March 1, 1864. Washington City, D. C.: COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit herewith report of the operations of the signal detachment of West…
HEADQUARTERS, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., May 24, 1864. One of my scouting parties had a fight with some of Mosby’s men this afternoon near Charlestown. A scouting party from Duffield’s…
HEADQUARTERS ADVANCE FORCES, In front of Strasburg, May 21, 1864. Saturday [May 14] we broke camp in rear of Woodstock and marched to New Market, a distance of twenty-one miles,…
MARTINSBURG, Va. MARTINSBURG, Va., May 17, 1864. General Sigel had an engagement near Mount Jackson on the 15th ; about 600 killed and wounded. All dead and most of badly…