Poolesville, October 20, 1861. Col. CHARLES , DEVENS, Commanding Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers : COLONEL: You will please send orders to the canal to have the two new flat-boats now…
Poolesville, October 29, 1861. = As much time must elapse before complete reports can be obtained from the various commanders of regiments, I have the honor to submit the following…
GENERAL ORDERS, ! HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, October 25, 1861. No. 32. “Washington, October 25, 1861. The major-general commanding the Army of the Potomac desires to offer his thanks,…
Washington, November 1, 1861. SIR : I have the honor to forward herewith Brigadier-General Stone’s report of the engagement near Leesburg on the 21st ultimo. I-also transmit a copy of…
Camp Piney, November 19, 1861. SIR: In execution of a general plan, of which you were fully advised in my last dispatch, I succeeded [ November 1] in placing my…
Camp Dickerson, November 7, 1861. SIR: I asked instructions from the War Department nearly two weeks since as to the best point to be occupied by this command as winter…
Camp Huddleston, Va., November 18, 1861. == SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in the recent rout and pursuit…
Camp, Gauley Mountain, November 6, 1861. GENERAL: Inclosed you will find a sketch, marked, showing the west side of Kanawha from Fayette to Paint Creek, with such roads marked as…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 13, 1861. Your No. 32, dated 2 p. m., just received. The commanding general does not think the rebels have entirely gone, but what their force…
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 13, 1861. I hope your camp equipage has been ordered up. Make every arrangement to occupy the hill, and make your troops comfortable until others come…