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A. A. Humphreys, August 3, 1864
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Near Petersburg, August 3, 1864. GENERAL: In obedience to orders from General Meade (to whom I was ordered to report), the First and Third Divisions of…
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Major-General Smith to W. M. Russell, J. R, June 17, 1864
CIRCULAR. HEADQUARTERS EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Field, near Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864. To THE EIGHTEENTH ARMY CORPS: The general commanding desires to express to his command his appreciation…
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H. M. Plaisted, July 29, 1864
HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH MAINE VOLUNTEERS, Deep Bottom, Va., July 29, 1864. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report the operations of the troops under my command in taking and holding the…
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Robert S. Foster to Winfield S. Hancock, September 27, 1864
HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, TENTH ARMY CORPS, In the Field, Va., September 27, 1864. GENERAL: In answer to your communication of September 21, this day received, I have the honor to…
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Robert S. Foster to Godfrey Weitzel, July 24, 1864
HEADQUARTERS U.S. FORCES, Deep Bottom, July 24, 1864. This morning at daylight the Eleventh Maine, acting under my orders, advanced and occupied the enemy’s battery on the New Market and…
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L. B. Norton, September 2, 1864
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, September 2, 1864. September 2, 1864. On June 14 a signal tower, 125 feet high, was finished at Cobb’s Hill, which tower commands a…
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Henry L. Abbot to Henry J. Hunt, August 4, 1864
HEADQUARTERS SIEGE TRAIN, Broadway Landing, Va., August 4, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report upon the: siege train organized by me in April last, according…
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General Grant, December 5, 1864
HEADQUARTERS SIEGE TRAIN AND SIEGE ARTILLERY, Broadway Landing, Va., December 5, 1864. GENERAL : On June 14 the Eighteenth Corps, under Major-General Smith, arrived i advance of the Army of…
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William Wells to Taylor, July 3, 1864
HEADQUARTERS FIRST VERMONT CAVALRY, Near White House Landing, Va., July 3, 1864. LIEUTENANT: In compliance with instructions from brigade headquarters I have the honor to submit the following report of…
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Bol Hutchins to Taylor, July 3, 1864
HEADQUARTERS FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE CAVALRY, Near Jordan’s Point, Va., July 3, 1864. Sir: In obedience to instructions from brigade headquarters I have the honor to submit the following report of…