710 Series I Volume LI-I Serial 107 - Supplements Part I
| Page 710 | MD., E. N. C., PA., VA., EXCEPT S. W., & W. VA. |
CHAP. LXIII.]
already done, of Tyler's brigade, and the embarkation, as soon as possible, of the First and Second Brogades, of Shields' division, which are to go to Old Point Comfort. They are not to wait for the brigade just formed of the regiments from your command, but to proceed at once and to be followed as soon as possible by the new brigade. The general wishes you to report to me by telegraph as fast as any regiment or brigade shall have embarked, left, &c., for the information of the War Department.
Very respectfully, your obedient servnat,
ED. SCHRIVER,
Colonel and Chief of Staff.
[12.]
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., June 29, 1862.
Major - General BANKS, Middletown:
Major - General Sigel is relieved from his present command in your corps and appointed to the command of the First Army Corps. You will please designate the officer to whom he shall turn over his present command, and direct him to report to Major - General Pope by telegraph for orders awaiting them at Middletown.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
[12.]
MIDDLETOWN, June 29, 1862 - 5. 10 p. m.
[Received 7. 40 p. m.]
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Your dispatch received at 1. 55 p. m., and orders issued accordingly. All quiet today. Hope to have information in morning which will serve to demonstrate position of the enemy.
N. P. BAMKS,
Major - General,
[12.]
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., June 29, 1862 - 1. 35 p. m.
Major - General SIGEL, Middletown:
You are relieved from your present command and appointed commander of the First Army Corps in the Army of Virginia, and will report immediately by telegraph to General Pope, at Washington, for orders, turning over your present command to such officer as Major - General Banks may designate, and will remain at your present post until you received his orders.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
[12.]
MIDDLETOWN, June 29, 1862 - 2 p. m.
[Received 2. 10 p. m.]
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Your dispatch of the 29th is received, and will be executed immediately. I have reported to Major - General Pope for duty.
F. SIGEL,
Major - General.
[12.]
| Page 710 | MD., E. N. C., PA., VA., EXCEPT S. W., & W. VA. |
- 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