GENERAL ORDERS, ! HEADQUARTERS AQUIA DISTRICT, VA., March 17, 1862. -The major-general commanding the Aquia District desires to congratulate his own and the division of General Whiting on the admirable…
March 20, 1862. ; l Richmond, Va., March 20, 1862. GENERAL: The President requests that I should inform you that. unofficial reports have reached him of great destruction of property—burning…
March 22, 1862. SIR: In obedience to the orders of the President, conveyed through you to Major-General Holmes, on account of certain unofficial reports â – which had reached his…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKERâS DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., March 11, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to report that the rebel batteries at Cockpit Point were entirely destroyed yesterday. The…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER’S DIVISION, March 10, 1862. , Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., March 10, 1862. GENERAL: I have nothing important to add to the advices sent you yesterday concerning the…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER’S DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., March 9, 1862. I am directed by the brigadier-general commanding the division to request that you will detach 500 men, with instructions…
HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, Bunker Hill, Va., March 8, 1862. MAJOR: Frequent reports having come to me that the rebel eavalry : e in small squads were scouting the numerous cross…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, Fort Lyon, March 14, 1862. The report of Lieutenant-Colonel Morgan is unsatisfactory. I saw the ` guide Williamson, who says there was sufficient light to distinguish, and that…
March 6, 1862. March 6, 1862â10 a. m. â+ MAJOR: I reported yesterday afternoon my arrival here. We found a small picket of cavalry and a few infantry, several of…
May 14, 1862. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the movements of my command, both personal and temporarily enlarged, from the moment of the reception…