HEADQUARTERS ROCKVILLE EXPEDITION, Tennallytown, June 11, 1861. CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report my arrival at this place with Captain Owen’s company of volunteer cavalry, and the Second, Third,…
CHAMBERSBURG CHAMBERSBURG, June 11, 1861. Colonel Wallace (regiment of volunteers from Evansville, Ind.) yesterday peaceably occupied Cumberland, and acts on my instructions of the 6th instant. He will call to-day…
HEADQUARTERS CAMP BETHEL, Bethel Church, June 10, 1861. Sir: The enemy, thirty-five hundred strong, attacked us at our post, and after a very animated conflict of two hours and a…
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEP’?, Richmond, March 31, 1862. To the honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives : Sir: In reply to the resolution of the House…
Staunton, Va. Staunton, Va., June 6, 1861. Col. G. A. PORTERFIELD, Commanding Virginia Forces, Beverly, Va.: COLONEL: I send you a supply of ammunition by Messrs. Trotter and Crawford, an…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. VOLUNTEERS, Grafton, W. Va., June 2, 1861. Colonel DUMONT, CoLoNEL: You will proceed by railroad this evening at 8.30 o’clock to Webster, with eight companies of your…
Graflon, W. Va. Graflon, W. Va., June 2, 1861. Col. B. F. KELLEY, Commanding First Regiment Virginia Volunteers : CoLONEL: With six companies of your regiment, nine companies of Colonel…
HEADQUARTERS U. S. VOLUNTEERS, Grafton, W. Va., June 7, 1861. GENERAL: I have the honor to report that I arrived at Grafton on the evening of the 1st day of…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, June 2, 1861. ‘ Camp Pickens, Va., June 2, 1861. Sir: The reports of the attack on Fairfax Court-House by the enemy’s cavalry, on the 1st…
MANASSAS JUNCTION, V. A. MANASSAS JUNCTION, V. A., June 1, 1861. Captain Marr was killed ; Colonel Ewell wounded in the shoulder, and one private badly in the right breast.…