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Browsing named entities in Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott).

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S. Cooper (search for this): chapter 2
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General. Jackson, ers, whose names will be presented by Adjutant-General Cooper-Lieutenant Smith and M. R. Tunno. ast Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjutant-General C. S. Army: Generalgreatest need. By order of the President: S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General. Richmond,eneral. Corinth, Miss., April 9, 1862. General S. Cooper, Richmond, Va.: All present probabili have just received the inclosed note from General Cooper, and inclose it, together with the articlef the Mississippi, Corinth, May 1, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjt. and Insp. Gen., Richmond: Gene war. By command of the Secretary of War: S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General. May 4, 18 East Tennessee, Knoxville, May 8, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmon* * * * By command of the Secretary of War: S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector general. General[29 more...]
30th (search for this): chapter 2
they will be ordered into the department. Captain Clark, who was ordered here with a light battery, arrived on the 30th ultimo, but without guns. He was assured they would be sent from Virginia, and I trust they will soon be forwarded to him. pt., Corinth, Miss., May 29, 1862. I. Colonel Claiborne, commanding at Pocahontas, will destroy at daybreak, on the 30th instant, the bridges over Hatchie and Tuscumbia, this side of Pocahontas. He will remain at Pocahontas until forced by the ent Major-General Van Dorn will state clearly and explicitly what act or acts of mine induced him, on the morning of the 30th ultimo, to relieve me from the command of a division of the Army of the West, then on the march from Corinth to Booneville? Booneville Station during an attack upon our transportation train at that place by a cavalry force of the enemy on the 30th ultimo. A suitable badge of distinction will be awarded him at some future day, to be announced in orders. By command o
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 2
e men expires in a short time it would not be worth the trouble and expense of transfer; but if they are for the war or have some time to serve, they would be useful to General Heth. There are three Tennessee regiments in the army of General Joseph E. Johnston whose term of service will expire in May, and their officers state that the men would re-enlist for the war if permitted to return to Tennessee. These regiments cannot now be spared unless their places could be supplied at once. You will decide whether you can send on the troops in your army for the purpose of making the exchange, and if you can spare them for that purpose and their term of service be sufficiently long to justify the step. The Tennessee troops under General Johnston can be sent to you. I trust that our late success in the Southwest will have a good effect upon the people among whom you are operating. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant R. E. Lee, General, Commanding. Bridgeport
31st (search for this): chapter 2
le, April 3, 1862. Maj. T. A. Washington, Assistant Adjutant-General, Richmond, Va.: Major: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo. In my letter to the War Department, dated the 13th ultimo, a copy of which is inclosed, See p. 320. a suggestion is made that martial law should be declment of East Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.: General: By direction of General Lee, commanding, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo relative to the condition of affairs in your command, &c., and to inform you in reply that 1,500 muskets were sent you on the 29th ultimo and 700 more were sentGeneral. headquarters Western Department, Baldwyn, Miss., June 3, 1862. [W. Goodman, Esq.:] sir: General Beauregard directs me to reply to your note of the 31st ultimo to General Bragg, and inform you that he would advise the removal of the rolling stock and machinery of your road to some greater place of safety in the interio
Fisk (search for this): chapter 2
nt points, the troops will be held ready to meet him promptly at all times, day or night. By command of General Bragg: Geo. G. Garner. outpost Purdy road, Miss., Monday [May 12, 1862]--10 a.m. General George Garner, Assistant Adjutant-General: The three companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Dennett I have relieved and brought in to this point this morning, and put pickets in their old places. There is a space of a mile and a half or so between my pickets, on the right, and those of Colonel Fisk, on his left, that I have directed Captain Harper to scout with his cavalry. I have not force sufficient to extend my pickets to meet his. I have here 800 men, and more than 300 of them stand guard every twenty-four hours. I have no reserve except those just off duty. I have nothing special to report of the movements of the enemy. I send copy of correspondence with Brigadier-General-------, had this morning. Not found. What shall I do in reference thereto? Respectfully, Wm. A.
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in addition to his duties as commander of the Second Army Corps, is announced as chief of the staff to the commander of the forces. A. S. Johnston, General, C. S. Army. Jacksonport, March 29, 1862. General A. Sidney Johnston: Your order [23d instant] received. Will be executed as promptly as possible. I go this evening to see General Beauregard at his request, and to prepare army on the march to Des Arc. Earl Van Dorn. headquarters Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, March 29, 18 H. Marshall, Brigadier-General, Commanding. headquarters, Richmond, Va., April 26, 1862. General G. T. Beauregard Commanding Army of the Mississippi: General: I have the honor to state, in reply to your telegram to General Cooper of the 23d instant, that Maj. Gen. Sam. Jones has again been ordered to turn over the command at Pensacola to General Forney, and report to you without delay. As regards engineers there are none of the regular corps now available to be sent you. Col. John Peg
24th (search for this): chapter 2
you, in response to your telegram, that he desires the immediate destruction of bridges, tunnels, culverts, &c., upon the roads designated in my letter of the 24th instant, and especially that this shall be done as far in the direction of Nashville as possible. It is by effectually obstructing the railroad northwest of Tullahomant Adjutant-General. headquarters, Richmond, Va., March 30, 1862. Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall, Commanding, &c., Lebanon, Va.: General: Your letter of the 24th instant to the Adjutant and Inspector General has been referred to me. In reply, I have to say that all the arms we have at our disposal here are being put in the handrtment of East Tennessee, Knoxville, May 26, 1862. Brig. Gen. D. Leadbetter, Commanding First Brigade, Chattanooga Tenn.: General: Your communication of the 24th instant Not found. is received. In reply to that portion of it referring to the movements of the enemy the major-general commanding directs me to say to you that h
W. J. Hardee (search for this): chapter 2
and absent. For duty. Aggregate. First (Hardee's) Division:         Hindman's brigade 2,362. General: To Generals Polk, Bragg, and Hardee. The commander of the forces directs that you se delays will render it necessary to hold General Hardee in check until we can be ready in the rearent ordered to be made at that hour by Major-Generals Hardee and Bragg. It is of the utmost importve you will report in person for orders to General Hardee. You will send at once to General Breckll take position at once on the right flank of Hardee's division, in and about the lines under constI cannot well get around in time for Bragg and Hardee; that is, unless I can get through the Clear C. m. to join my command. My aide-de-camp, Captain Hardee, has just returned from General Davis' Hea your movement on their account. To-night General Hardee's headquarters will be at Carrollville, anny on this route. Even a large portion of General Hardee's trains I found in the midst of my column[32 more...]<
Earl Dorn (search for this): chapter 2
can now muster only about 35,000 effectives. Van Dorn may possibly join us in a few days with about places of encampment. By order of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn: Dabney H. Maury, Assistant AdjutantOrganization of the Army of the West, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn commanding, April 29, 1862. as annthe Mississippi, Corinth, May 5, 1862. General Earl Van Dorn, Commanding Army of the West: Generrinth, Miss., May 8, 1862--11.30 p. m. General Earl Van Dorn, Farmington Road, Miss.: The inclos Not found. ------,------, 1862. Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, Farmington Road, Miss.: My dear Gdy for action at once. By order of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn: Dabney H. Maury, Assistant Adjutanteral. Memphis, Tenn., May 23, 1862. Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, Corinth, Miss.: General: Upon my me from noticing it sooner. I think Major-General Van Dorn must have misunderstood the object of ndicated the importance he attaches to Major-General Van Dorn's opinion by immediately assigning me [37 more...]
Kirby Smith (search for this): chapter 2
the Secretary of War to inform you that, as suggested by you, Maj. Gen. [E.] Kirby Smith, who has been assigned to the command of the troops in the District of East sirable. As Chattanooga is in East Tennessee, it necessarily belongs to Major-General Smith's district. But if you should desire to maintain control of that post, you can either separate it from the district of General Smith or leave it under his command, as you may deem best. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, S. Cation of the President if you can procure the means of accomplishing it. General Kirby Smith, commanding the forces destined for East Tennessee, may be able to detacks to me to guard the passages to the lead mines of Wythe and the salt-works in Smith, the roads leading in from the Sandy, I respectfully submit to the Secretary tht Tennessee is threatened by greatly superior forces and will be lost if General Kirby Smith is not re-enforced. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. Corinth, March
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