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73 Series I Volume IX- Serial 9 - Roanoke

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June 3, 1862.- North Carolina, west of the Blue Ridge, embraced in the Confederate Department of East Tennessee.

5, 1862.- Action at Tranter's Creek.

21, 1862.- Confederate Department of North Carolina extended to the south bank of the James River.

24, 1862.- Reconnaissance from Washington to Tranter's Creek.

July 6, 1862.- Major-General Burnside sails with re-enforcements for the Army of the Potomac, leaving Brigadier General John G. Foster in command of the Department of North Carolina.

9, 1862.- Capture of Hamilton.

17, 1862.- Major General D. H. Hill, C. S. Army, assigned to command of the Department of North Carolina.

24-28, 1862.- Expeditions from New Berne to Trenton and Pollocksville, &c.

26, 1862.- Skirmish at Mill Creek, near Pollocksville.

26-29, 1862.- Reconnaissance from Newport to Young's Cross-Roads, and skirmish 27th.

28, 1862.- Expedition from Batchelder's Creek, on Neuse River Road.

August 14-15, 1862.- Reconnaissance from Newport to Swansborough.

FEBRUARY 8, 1862.- Battle of Roanoke Island, N. C.

REPORTS, ETC.


Numbers 1.- Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside, U. S. Army, with congratulatory orders.


Numbers 2.- Lieutenant Daniel W. Flagler, U. S. Ordnance Department.


Numbers 3.- Surgeon William H. Church, U. S. Army, Acting Medical Director.


Numbers 4.- Brigadier General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, with sketch.


Numbers 5.- Captain Daniel Messinger, Acting Aide-de-Camp.


Numbers 6.- Lieutenant C. Cushing Eyre, First New York Marine Artillery.


Numbers 7.- Lieutenant James H. Strong, Aide-de-Camp.


Numbers 8..- Lieutenant James A. Hedder, First New York Marine Artillery.


Numbers 9.- Lieutenant James M. Pendleton, Aide-de-Camp.


Numbers 10.- Lieutenant Colonel albert W. Drake, Tenth Connecticut Infantry.


Numbers 11.- Colonel John Kurtz, Twenty-third Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 12.- Colonel Thomas G. Stevenson, Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 13.- Colonel Edwin Upton, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 14.- Colonel Horace C. Lee, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 15.- Brigadier General Jesse L. Reno, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 16.- Captain Montgomery Ritchie, Aide-de-Camp.


Numbers 17.- Lieutenant Colonel Alberto C. Maggi, Twenty-first Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 18.- Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Heckman, Ninth New Jersey Infantry.


Numbers 19.- Colonel Edward Ferrero, Fifty-first New York Infantry.


Numbers 20.- Colonel John F. Hartranft, Fifty-first Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 21.- Brigadier General John G. Parke, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade.


Numbers 22.- Colonel Isaac P. Rodman, Fourth Rhode Island Infantry.


Numbers 23.- Major General Benjamin Huger, C. S. Army, with correspondence.


Numbers 24.- Brigadier General Henry A. Wise, C. S. Army, with correspondence.


Numbers 25.- Colonel H. M. Shaw, Eighth North Carolina Infantry.


Numbers 26.- Captain James M. Whitson, Eight North Carolina Infantry.


Numbers 27.- Colonel John V. Jordan, Thirty-first North Carolina Infantry.


Numbers 28.- Lieutenant Colonel Wharton J. Green, Second North Carolina Battalion.


Numbers 29.- Major H. W. Fry, Forty-sixth Virginia Infantry.


Numbers 30.- Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Anderson, Fifty-ninth Virginia Infantry.


Numbers 31.- Major G. H. Hill, C. S. Army, commanding Fort Bartow.


Numbers 32.- Captain John S. Taylor, C. S. Army, in charge of heavy artillery.


Numbers 33.- Report of Investigating Committee Confederate House of Representatives.


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