HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, U. S. VOLUNTEERS, Columbus, Ky., January 5, 1863. Major-General ‘ URTIS, Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: GENERAL: have my entire command in readiness to ship…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, January 5, 1863. January 5, 1863. Brigadier-General GORMAN, Commanding Helena : GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that no troops have been halted at…
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRIOT, Saint Louis, January 5, 1863. A. A. G., Hdgrs. Dept. of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: Sig: From all I can learn, I believe that the…
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 5, 1863. My Dear Sir: I am having a good deal of trouble with Missouri matters, and I now set down to write you particularly about…
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, Helena, January 3, 1863. Major-General CURTIS, Commanding Department of Missouri, Saint Louis : GENERAL: Yours of December 29, 1862, was received by the hands of…
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE FRONTIER, Fayetteville, January 3, 1863. Maj. Gen. SAMUEL R. CURTIS, Commanding Department of the Missouri, Saint Louis, Mo.: GENERAL: cannot suppress a feeling of surprise and…
Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Mo., January 3, 1863. General Grant has ordered all my force now at Columbus to Memphis. This strips the country about Cairo and New Madrid,…
Saint Louis Saint Louis, January 2, 1863. Col. N. P. CoipMAN, Helena : DEAR COLONEL: Happy New Year to you and the general. I wrote the general before noon, but…
Oolumbus, Ky. Oolumbus, Ky., January 2, 1863. Maj. Gen. SAMUEL R. CURTIS, Commanding Department of the Missouri: GENERAL: General Osterhaus, en route for his command, passed here last evening. [From…
FAYETTEVILLE FAYETTEVILLE, January 2, 1863. Hon. JOHN S. PHELPS, Military Governor of Arkansas, Saint Louis: I respectfully suggest the propriety of organizing the militia of this part of the State,…