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Report from Peadar O' Loghlen Divisional Adjutant 1st Western Division to A/General from 10 a.m. 19/7/22 to 12 a.m. on the night 20/21st. Movement and locations of Free State forces in the Limerick/Nenagh area.

Report from the D/C/S 1st Western Division outlining the activities and actions of the various Brigades of the Division. Report details from 1 p.m. 15/7/22 to 4 p.m. 16/7/22.

From the Divisional Adjutant Peadar O' Loghlen (spelt Loghlin) to the A/General detailing an attempted attack by Free State forces on Republican forces quartered at Edenvale House. Attackers numbered thirty to forty and were armed with a machine gun on 22/7/22 in response to an attack by Republican forces on the Free State forces in Ballinasloe on 19/7/22.

Extract of report of O/C Laurence Smyth on the capture of his column, 1st Brigade, 1st Western Division (27 men) by Free State forces.

The response of the Republican Chief of Staff to the loss of the column that is in charge of a very important route and asks were the officers taken with the column.

Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff to the Adjutant General of the Republican forces to have the incident of the capture of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Western Division investigated. From the Field General Headquarters in Fermoy, Co. Cork.

Request by the Adjutant General detailing the particulars of the instruction given to the column captured by the Brigade O/C and reports of the 'surviving' i.e. still free officers and how Keogh (an officer) escaped and with whom.

Details of when and how a soldier is allowed to be captured and his rights as a prisoner of war.

Report on the capture of the 1st Brigade, 1st Western Division and that the Free State forces were using this as a publicity stunt and requests the Republican publicity department counter it.

Description of a Republican attack on a Free State patrol in Ballinasloe on the 17th July 1922. Free State troops rounded up all the men and boys in the town who had known or suspected Republican sympathies on 22 July 1922. Republicans attacked a Free State barracks with mines and rifles. Captured the garrison and partially destroyed the building. Signed by Frank Barrett, O/C 1st Western Division.