Cairo, September 22, 1861. ” GENERAL: Yesterday I directed a reconnaissance in force to discover the position of the enemy. The main part of the troops from Norfolk and Fort…
Cairo, Ill., September 6, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. A. PAINE, Commanding, &c., Paducah, Ky.: Take possession of the wharf boats at the landing and make use of them for storehouses.…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAS £ MISSOURI, Cairo, Ill., September 6, 1861. I left Cairo at 10.30 o’elock last night, taking two gunboats and three steamboats, with the Ninth Illinois, under Gen.…
Cairo, IUl., August 23, 1861. SIR: In the affair of the little steamer W. D. Terry, taken by Captain Stembel, of gunboat Lexington, yesterday morning, at Paducah, Ky., I had…
August 25, 1861. > Saint Lowis, August 25, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith sot MUR E to my sites headquarters from Col. R. J. Oglesby, Righth…
January 27, 1862. = Fort Thorn, Ariz., January 27, 1862. General S. COOPER, jd Adjutant and Inspector General C. 8. A.: GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that…
January 18, 1862. : Houston, January 18, 1862. Maj. S. MACLIN, . Acting Chief Commissary of Subsistence, San Antonio, Tex. : SIR: Col. P. N. Luckett, commanding at Fort Brown,…
Fort Bliss, Tex., January 3, 1862. General S. CooPEn, Adjutant and Inspector General C. S. A.: GENERAL: I have the honor to report that in view of the importance of…
December 17, 1861. No. 283. f Galveston, Tex., December 17, 1861. For special and immediate service on the Rio Grande, troops will be . received and mustered in for six…
GENERAL “RCRUM HDQRS. ARMY OF NEW MEXICO, December 14, 1861. No. 10. Fort Bliss, Tex., December 14, 1861. I. Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley assumes from this date the command…