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Discusses troop movements in preparation for the Battle of Fredericksburg. Discusses Confederate plans if they are attacked and relates enemy troop movements. Written at 9:25 p.m., less than two days before the battle began. Written to an unknown...

GLC02461.18

to John Letcher

General Magruder requests that Captain Jeff Phillips (possibly Jefferson C. Phillips), of the 'Old Dominion Dragoons,' be promoted to the position of Lieutenant Colonel of a cavalry regiment. Relates that Phillips has been recommended by Colonels...

GLC02461.19

to unknown

Possibly created in Norfolk, Virginia. Mahone notes that Colonel Butt (possibly Alexander Bruce Butt), who bears this letter, will visit Richmond seeking a commission in the Provisional Army of Virginia. Notes that Butt is Commandant of the 7th...

GLC02461.20

to Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Confederate Major General Maury writes to General Beauregard requesting that he make known what work the engineers should focus on first. Asks if the work above the city should be put off until the work at Bay Shore is completed. Informs, "At present...

GLC02461.21

[John S. Mosby's safe conduct pass for William L. Yurk, 5th Michigan Cavalry].

An undated safe conduct pass, signed by Mosby as "Major, CSA." "This prisoner captured by my command in Loudon Co VA. has been sent to the Federal lines." On the verso is the certified promise of William L. Yurk (5th Michigan Cavalry) not to take up...

GLC02461.23

to John Letcher

Lieutenant Paxton of the 27th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, writes to John Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Relates that Captain Robinson, also of the 27th Virginia, "is a worthy gentleman and a gallant officer."Written at Fairfax Court House.

GLC02461.24

to John Letcher

Colonel Pendleton recommends Captain Atkinson, of Colonel August's Regiment, for the position of Major in that regiment. Informs Letcher, Governor of Virginia, that Atkinson is well suited for command.

GLC02461.25

[Pickett's certification of a list of ordnance and ordnance stores]

Possibly created in Urbanna, Virginia. Colonel Pickett verifies an invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores he turned over to William C. Fleet, Captain of Company B, 55th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. Lists ordnance and ordnance stores. Includes...

GLC02461.26

to Reuben E. Fenton

Recommending Hampden Waldron, a First Lieutenant on his staff, for promotion, with an autograph endorsement signed by Edwin D. Morgan, also supporting a promotion for Waldron.

GLC02462.02

to Frank A. Haskell

Orders Haskell and his troops to rendezvous with Gibbon and his men inside Washington. Dated to 9:30 PM. Signed as Brigadier General. Also mentions Sixth Wisconsin and General Hooker. Day and month given, but no year. Written some time between...

GLC02462.07

to John W. Werell

Explaining why the muster rolls for his regiment have yet to reach Washington, and says he will now keep the rolls on him until Werell can reach him.

GLC02462.10

[Certificate of service for Edwin Saunders]

Certifying that Captain Edwin Dean Saunders served on his staff.

GLC02462.14

to Adam Badeau

Orders Badeau, an attache on Sherman's staff, to New Orleans.

GLC02462.20

[Naval pass]

Issued from the Navy Yard. Pass for one ton of coal, private property of R. T. Hieston. Cushing signs as commander, one month before his death. Two names appear on verso (possibly signatures): John P. Cahill, watchman, and John O'Neill.

GLC02463.04

to Washington Lafayette Elliott

General McCook, commander of 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, transmits a communication from a surgeon in charge of an unspecified Confederate hospital. Indicates he intends "to send it through by a bye road in rear of their pickets so as...

GLC02463.12

to William Pitt Fessenden

General Ingalls writes to Fessenden, a United States Senator from Maine. Writes, "In my letter of today I probably should not have referred to the President at all, and beg you will excuse me- It is certain that Generals Hooker, Burnside and Meade...

GLC02464.09

to Lorenzo Thomas

Mansfield informs Thomas, Adjutant General for the United States, that he accepts the appointment of Brevet Brigadier General conferred upon him from the United States President (Abraham Lincoln). Accepts the title "with the hope that in so doing I...

GLC02464.11

to H. M. Benedict, Esq.

General Washburn replies to a note from Benedict, a lawyer in Albany, New York. Writes, "I regret that I had not sooner received it that I might have concentrated even in a very small way to the great charity with which you are connected. As you...

GLC02464.19

Statement concerning the service of Lieutenants Hayden and Hubbell

Major General Wright confirms that Lieutenants T.L. Hayden (possibly Thomas Lloyd Hayden), 7th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and Henry Wilson Hubbell, 40th Regiment, New York Volunteers served as Wright's aides-de-camp from January 1862 to August...

GLC02464.21

to Thomas Caute Reynolds

Marked "private." General Price writes to Reynolds, Governor of Missouri. Assures Reynolds that he has received no further news than that which he transmitted the previous day (docket indicates that the 'news' Price refers to possibly pertains to a...

GLC02461.28

to John Letcher

Colonel Pryor writes to Letcher, Governor of Virginia. Recommends Colonel George C. Cabell (possibly George Craighead Cabell), for the position of paymaster for the Virginia forces. Of Cabell, Pryor writes, "He is a gentleman of the highest...

GLC02461.29

to Pierre G. T. Beauregard

General Robertson writes to Beauregard, who recently transferred from command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia. Robertson writes, "I am anxious to be again in active...

GLC02461.30

to Thomas Jordan

Written in Union Hills (possibly near Arlington, Virginia). General Rodes writes to Jordan, Assistant Adjutant General of the First Division, Army of the Potomac (Confederate). Reports that in the absence of General Earl Van Dorn, his brigade (3rd)...

GLC02461.31

to Daniel Ruggles

Thompson, a Brigadier General in the Missouri State Guard, writes to General Ruggles: "Can you inform me the custom in the case of an Officer resigning who has never received his commission, but who has been duly elected and served for several months...

GLC02461.32

to Jubal Early

Demands one hundred men on the next day to load railway cars. The men must arrive by 8 a.m., have their own officers with them, and bring their own dinners. Year not given, but both men are referred to as Brigadier Generals. In March of 1861...

GLC02461.33