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Unknown, August 29, 1862
GENERAL ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, Iuka, August 29, 1862. With your approval I propose to cover the road to Decatur by the following dispositions:* Eight companies infantry, six cavalry, and a section…
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Letters from 1862
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Unknown to Robert Allen, August 29, 1862
Washington, August 29, 1862. General ROBERT ALLEN, Chief Quartermaster, Saint Louis, Mo. : Columbus is not in the new Department of the Ohio, and Cairo was not intended to be.…
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Col. M. M. Crocker to James Wilson, August 28, 1862
ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, Iuka, August 28, 1862. I have a disciplined cavalry regiment only half filled. We are in the presence of the enemy superior in numbers, having a cloud of…
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Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 28, 1862
Washington, August 28, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss.: General Buell asks for re-enforcements. You will give him all the assistance you Can spare. H. W. HALLECK, General-in- Chief. CAIRO, ILL.,…
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J. H. Hammond to Henry W. Halleck, August 25, 1862
GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS, Corinth, Miss., August 25, 1862. GENERAL: Colonel Mason, with portion of the Seventy-first Ohio surrendered Clarksville to the guerrillas. Prisoners were paroled and sent down the river.…
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Unknown to William T. Sherman, August 25, 1862
Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Memphis: My DEAR GENERAL: It was determined before I arrived here that gold and Treasury notes should be paid…
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Jas. B. McPherson to Washington, D. C., August 25, 1862, August 19, 1862
GENERAL ROSECRANS’ HEADQUARTERS, August 19, 1862. August 19, 1862. General GRANT: Mobile Advertiser of 15th here. Breckinridge was whipped at Vicksburg;* General Clark and two colonels killed. They lost 250…
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G. M. Dodge to I. N. Haynie, August 18, 1862
Jackson, Tenn., August 18, 1862. Col. I. N. HAYNIE, Bethel: Send prisoners and horses by rail under guard to this place. If you canât send the horses by rail turn…
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Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 18, 1862
Washington, August 18, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth, Miss. : As General Buellâs communications in Tennessee and Kentucky are seriously threatened your communication with him should be kept open if possible.…
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C. Goddard to H. W. Halleok, August 16, 1862
SPECIAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, August 16, 1862. IX. The movement of troops directed by Paragraph I, Special Orders, No. 211, from these headquarters, will be deferred.…