Washington, July 20, 1861. General MANSFIELD, Commanding, é&e. : Telegraphic communication only open to Fairfax. You will please therefore take measures to carry out instructions of General-in-Chief to send forward…
July 20, 1861. July 20, 1861â1.30 a, m. Brigadier-General MCDOWELL, c., Centreville : Your dispatch received at 1.5 a.m.* It is now 1.30 a. m. Huntâs battery left here at…
Washington, July 20, 1861. Col. D. E. SIcKLES, Staten Island, N. Y.: Lieutenant-General Scott desires that as many of the regiments under your command as are accepted, mustered into service,…
QUARTERMASTER GENERALâS OFFICE, Washington City, July 18, 1861. Major-General MCCLELLAN, Beverly, Va.: No surplus transportation at Leavenworth. Dickerson at Cincinnati reports two or three hundred horses on hand. [have ordered…
July 15, 1861. Lieutenant-General Scott: I have the honor to report that the term of enlistment of the Third and Fourth Massachusetts Regiments, three months’ men, expires by limitation to-morrow,…
Fort McHenry, Md., July 14, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General: Sir: By direction of Major-General Banks, I have the honor to report, for the information of the General-in-Chief,…
Fort McHenry, July 10, 1861. GEORGE R. DopGE, Marshal of Police, Baltimore: Ste: It having been reported to the general commanding the Department of Annapolis, by reliable authority, that plans…
Fort McHenry, July 9, 1861. Col. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. 8S. Army: Sir: The general commanding directs me to report, for the information of the General in-Chief, that,…
Manassas Junction, Va., July 7, 1861. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowEL1, Commanding U. 8. Forces, Arlington, Va.: Sir: The bearer, Col. Thos. H. Taylor, is sent (with an escort of twelve…
Fort Monroe, July 3, 1861. Lieutenant-General Scott: Str: I have the honor to report that yesterday my scouts captured an enemy’s picket about five miles from Newport News, and from…