HEADQUARTERS POST, Staunton, June 15, 1864. Masor: Your note of the 13th reached me yesterday by return courier. It states ‘”‘McNeill and Gilmor are in the Valley below.” Major Gilmor…
SIGNAL OFFICER OF THE ARMY, March 1, 1864. Washington City, D. C.: COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit herewith report of the operations of the signal detachment of West…
HEADQUARTERS, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., May 24, 1864. One of my scouting parties had a fight with some of Mosby’s men this afternoon near Charlestown. A scouting party from Duffield’s…
HEADQUARTERS ADVANCE FORCES, In front of Strasburg, May 21, 1864. Saturday [May 14] we broke camp in rear of Woodstock and marched to New Market, a distance of twenty-one miles,…
MARTINSBURG, Va. MARTINSBURG, Va., May 17, 1864. General Sigel had an engagement near Mount Jackson on the 15th ; about 600 killed and wounded. All dead and most of badly…
New MarkKeEt, V. A. New MarkKeEt, V. A., May 13, 1864. Colonel Boyd, of the First New York Cavalry, with detachments from the Fifteenth New York and Cole’s (Maryland) battalion,…
CUMBERLAND, Mp. CUMBERLAND, Mp., May 11, 1864. Major Myers, of the Ringgold Cavalry, has just arrived here, and reports that yesterday morning about daylight they were attacked at the junction…
HEADQUARTERS, Newport, Giles County, Va., May 14, 1864. _Masor: On the morning of the 5th instant that portion of my command stationed at Jackson River Depot was ordered to Callaghan’s,…
HEADQUARTERS JACKSON’S CAVALRY BRIGADE, May 16, 1864. ‘ Narrows, May 16, 1864. CoLongL: The latest information received of the enemy was by dispatch from Major Hakle to-day, which was forwarded…
HEADQUARTERS, Narrows New River, Monday Morning, May 10, 1864. GENERAL: Col. W. L. Jackson arrived here last night at 12 o’clock. His command was 1,000 strong, not yet arrived, one…