December 29, 1861. General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding First Division: GENERAL: I send you a sketch* of the country about Somerset, which gives more information in regard to roads than…
Calhoun, Ky., December 30, 1861. GENERAL: In the fight just beyond SRE due we lost 8 killed and 8, perhaps 13, captured. â Over 400 rebel cavalry surprised 168 of…
Calhoun, Ky., December 29, 1861. CAPTAIN: I regret to inform you that on yesterday, as a command of 168 men, under Major Murray, of Jackson’s regiment, were returning from a…
i Georges Creek, December 28, 1861. DEAR SIR: We now have reached a point from which we can begin to act in concert. I have advanced to within 18 miles…
Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. Str: I advanced from Louisa on the 23d instant, with nine companies of the Forty-second Ohio, three companies of the Fourteenth Kentucky, and Major McLaughlinâs…
Georges Creek, December 26, 1861. I arrived here last night with 900 men. Twenty-five hundred rebels are at Paintsville, 18 miles distant, with four guns. They are fortifying. The Fourteenth…
Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., December 28, 1861. Colonel GARFIELD, Commanding Eighteenth Brigade, Louisa, Ky.: The following dispatch was sent this day to Lieut. M. L. Benham, Forty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers,…
December 17, 1861. Louisville, AY December 17, 1861. Colonel GARFIELD, Forty-second Ohio Regiment, Commanding Brigade: SIR: The brigade organized under your command is intended to operate against the rebel force…
Cave City, Ky., December 19, 1861. SIR: At 8 a. m. on the 17th instant I moved towards Woodsonville, for the purpose of breaking up the railroad from the vicinity…
Camp Wood, Ky., December 18, 1861. Respectfully forwarded. By direction of the general commanding the division I threw two regiments across the river to the assistance of the Thirty-second, though…