SHERMAN’S HEADQUARTERS, August 24, 1863. August 24, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel RAWLINS: When General Steele left this command he took with him two companies of cavalry, attached to the First Division. No…
HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Memphis, Tenn., September 9, 1863. Respectfully referred to Brig. Gen. J. D. Webster, superintendent of military railroads, Department of the Tennessee. By order of Major-General Hurlbut…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Vicksburg, Miss., September 2, 1863. Respectfully referred to Major-General Hurlbut, who will please answer General Rosecrans if there are any locomotives in his command that…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, Lexington, Ky., August 23, 1863. CoLONEL : The general commanding corps requests that you will please inform these headquarters of the whereabouts of the different regiments…
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF OF CAVALRY, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Col. C. GopDARD, Assistant Adjutant-General : The general commanding directs me to say to you that he ordered the battalion stationed at…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Maj. Gen. D. S. STANLEY, Chief of Cavalry: GENERAL: A dispatch from Captain Johnson, assistant quartermaster, at Decherd, says that rebels…
STEVENSON STEVENSON, August 23, 1863. Maj. Gen. GORDON GRANGER, Nashville : I have directed the commanding officer at McMinnville to guard the railroad to Manchester. You must guard it from…
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Stevenson, August 23, 1863. Major-General CRITTENDEN, Dunlap: Your dispatches received. All you have done approved of. There are 20,000 rations at Tracy City, and more…
Pikeville Pikeville, August 23, 1863. Lieut. Col. LYNE STARLING, Dunlap : Your dispatch by signal received. Colonel Minty fell back toward Poe’s on his own responsibility, not by my order,…
Dunlap Dunlap, August 23, 1863. General VAN CLEVE, Pikeville : Minty’s dispatch received. If he has fallen back in direction of Poe’s Tavern on your orders or without orders, he…