Order
J. C. Sullivan, May 8, 1862
HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH INDIANA REGIMENT, Columbia.Bridge, May 8, 1862. Siz: In obedience to your order I beg leave to transmit to you the following account of the affair in which the…
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Letters about Field Reports
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S. W. Downey to Albert Tracy, May 20, 1862
HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, Franklin, May 20, 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel Downey, sent to Wardensville after the party of guerrillas who murdered a party of officers, zouaves, and convalescent soldiers on their…
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W. H. Jenifer to Joseph E. Johnston, May 6, 1862
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW RIVER, Wytheville, Va., May 6, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit my report of a skirmish with the enemy near Princeton, Va., on the…
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Unknown to Eliakim P. Scammon, May 2, 1862
CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, May 2, 1862. Colonel Scammon’s advance guard had a skirmish with about 300 rebels at Camp Creek, a fork of Blue Stone, yesterday morning. Six of the enemy…
Dispatch
Unknown to Kelley sends this evening the following dispatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Downey, April 23, 1862
WHEELING WHEELING, April 23, 1862. General Kelley sends this evening the following dispatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Downey, in command at Romney: Twenty-five of Firey’s and Shaw’s cavalry encountered Colonel Parsons with…
Dispatch
Charles W. Field to Robert E. Lee, April 20, 1862
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Camp Spottsylvania, April 20, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to report that Lieut. Col. W. H. F. Lee has just arrived in my camp, and makes the…
Dispatch
Robert E. Lee to General, April 20, 1862
HEADQUARTERS AQUIA DISTRICT, April 20, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of my recent movements, terminating in the evacuation of Fredericks. burg: . My brigade…
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Robert E. Lee to Charles W. Field, April 19, 1862
Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., April 19, 1862. Commanding, &c., near Fredericksburg, Va.: GENERAL: Your letter of the 17th instant is received.* I desire that you shall do everything in your…
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Unknown, April 19, 1862
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, April 19, 1862. Seven miles from Fredericksburg, on Telegraph Road, April 19, 1862—6 a. m. GENERAL: I reached this point with my brigade yesterday about neon. A very…
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George D. Bayard to Halsted, April 28, 1862
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, Aquia, April 28, 1862. I sent up by to-day’s boat 17 prisoners, taken by our troops in their advance on Fredericksburg. They are mostly of…