Baltimore, November 18, 1861. GENERAL : Lieutenant Dix arrived this morning with your dispatch, communicating the gratifying intelligence that the rebel organizations in your neighborhood had dissolved. You are right…
HEADQUARTERS, Baltimore, November 14, 1861. GENERAL: I send you 500 of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Colonel Amory, which will make your command a very formidable one. I will send…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKERâS DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 14, 1861. GENERAL: The right of my camp was enlivened to-day by a spirited contest for a prize in the shape…
HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, Fort Lyon, December 9, 1861. Ihave seen Colonel-Berry, Fourth Maine Regiment. On the return of the troops to the Accotink 7 of the cavalry were absent. Captain of…
Camp Lyon, near Alexandria, Va., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: In pursuance of your orders, received this morning through Captain Norvell, at Pohick Church, I at once proceeded with the Fifth…
Fort Lyon, November 13, 1861. GENERAL: The enemy having made a demonstration against our pickets on the 11th instant, I sent out two small parties of cavalry to reconnoiter. On…
Camp Fenion, near Port Tobacco, Md., November 11, 1861. GENERAL: Shortly after my arrival at this point Captain Wilkinson, of Company I of this regiment, by my orders seized several…
Second Brigade, Hooker’s Division, November 12, 1861. CAPTAIN: Herewith I have the honor to inelose Col. Charles K. Grahamâs report of a reconnaissance of Mathias Point and the peninsula of…
HEADQUARTERS HOOKERâS DIVISION, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, Md., November 12, 1861. GENERAL: It was reported to me that the rebels were planting a battery at Boydâs Hole, which threatened to…
HEADQUARTERS BANKSâ DIVISION, December 22, 1861. SIR: Telegram from Colonel Leonard states as follows: WILLIAMSPORT, 21ST. Canal-boats running to-day both ways. Two guns were brought to Little Georgetown and some…