Washington, August 31, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss. : Could you send any more troops into Tennessee or Kentucky, east of the Cumberland, without risking your own positions ; if…
GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS, August 29, 1862. August 29, 1862—7 p. m. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLEOK, General-in-Ohief : Independent forces can be organized here, and from here east to Decatur.…
GENERAL ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, Iuka, August 29, 1862. With your approval I propose to cover the road to Decatur by the following dispositions:* Eight companies infantry, six cavalry, and a section…
Washington, August 29, 1862. General ROBERT ALLEN, Chief Quartermaster, Saint Louis, Mo. : Columbus is not in the new Department of the Ohio, and Cairo was not intended to be.…
ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, Iuka, August 28, 1862. I have a disciplined cavalry regiment only half filled. We are in the presence of the enemy superior in numbers, having a cloud of…
Washington, August 28, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss.: General Buell asks for re-enforcements. You will give him all the assistance you Can spare. H. W. HALLECK, General-in- Chief. CAIRO, ILL.,…
GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS, Corinth, Miss., August 25, 1862. GENERAL: Colonel Mason, with portion of the Seventy-first Ohio surrendered Clarksville to the guerrillas. Prisoners were paroled and sent down the river.…
Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Memphis: My DEAR GENERAL: It was determined before I arrived here that gold and Treasury notes should be paid…
GENERAL ROSECRANS’ HEADQUARTERS, August 19, 1862. August 19, 1862. General GRANT: Mobile Advertiser of 15th here. Breckinridge was whipped at Vicksburg;* General Clark and two colonels killed. They lost 250…
Jackson, Tenn., August 18, 1862. Col. I. N. HAYNIE, Bethel: Send prisoners and horses by rail under guard to this place. If you canât send the horses by rail turn…