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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 82 (search)
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20.-General Harney's Report.
St. Louis, Mo., May 19, 1864. To the Adjutant-General United States Army, Washington, D. C.:
General: I have the honor to forward a statement of my services since 1861, in obedience to the circular addressed to me from your office.
I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. S. Harney, Brigadier-General.
Having been desired from the Adjutant-General's office, to make a statement of the events with which I have been more or less connected, as a public officer, since the breaking out of the present rebellion, I make the following brief reference to them.
I was in command of the Western Department when the first overt acts of the rebels startled the country — not then prepared to anticipate the great results which followed.
I was suddenly surprised by an order calling me to Washington, and set out immediately in obedience to it. At that moment Harper's Ferry was in possession of the rebels; but this fact had not bec
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)