671 Series I Volume XI-III Serial 14 - Peninsular Campaign Part III
| Page 671 | Chapter XXIII. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION. |
V. Major-General McLaws' division will relieve Major-General Longstreet's command in its present duties, sending a brigade at once to relieve Brigadier General D. R. Jones at New Market.
* * * * * *
By command of General Lee:
[R. H. CHILTON.]
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.August 10, 1862
Major General D. H. HILL.
Commanding Department of North Carolina:
GENERAL: I am desired by General Lee to inform you that he wishes an artillery force organized under Colonel Brown, under the direction of General Pendleton, for service or your side of the river (James), and General Pendleton with the remainder of the reserve artillery to return immediately to this side of James River.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[A. L. LONG.]Colonel and Military Secretary.
SPECIAL ORDERS.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
Numbers 178.
August 10, 1862I. Major General G. W. Smith, having reported for duty, is assigned to the division composed of the brigades commanded by Brigadier-Generals Rodes, Garland, G. B. Anderson, Ripley, and Colonel Colquitt.
* * * * * *
By command of General Lee:
[R. H. CHILTON.]
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
August 11, 1862
General S. COOPER.
Adjutant and Inspector General:
GENERAL: I am informed by General Longstreet that all the conscripts that have arrived from South Carolina have been assigned to General Kershaw's brigade, McLaws' division, and that they constitute nearly all that will arrive from the State. The other South Carolina brigades will consequently be without recruits. I had desired that they should have been divided between Kershaw's and Jenkins' brigades, to equalize them with the others from the State as far as possible. Please inform me if it can be so arranged without injury to the service.
I am very anxious that the vacancies among the regimental officers should be filled as soon as possible. Some of the regiments are now moving, and it is of great importance that they should have, if possible, their complement of officers, many being absent sick. Recruits are
| Page 671 | Chapter XXIII. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments