The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesOfficial records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas. |
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By my correspondence with Major - General Huger you will perceive I not only offered to exchange all prisoners of war , privateersmen as well as those who had been held as hostages , on fair and honorable terms but on the express terms ...
By my correspondence with Major - General Huger you will perceive I not only offered to exchange all prisoners of war , privateersmen as well as those who had been held as hostages , on fair and honorable terms but on the express terms ...
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William M. Clary , late second officer of the U. S. steam transport Saxon , and Stanislaus Roy , of New Orleans , on the night of the 11th of June , instant , having forged a pretended authority of the major - general commanding , being ...
William M. Clary , late second officer of the U. S. steam transport Saxon , and Stanislaus Roy , of New Orleans , on the night of the 11th of June , instant , having forged a pretended authority of the major - general commanding , being ...
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC , June 14 , 1862 General R. E. LEE , Commanding Army of Northern Virginia , Richmond . SIR : Lieutenant Fellers , Company G , Thirteenth Regiment of South Carolina Infantry , is now at Fortress Monroe ...
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC , June 14 , 1862 General R. E. LEE , Commanding Army of Northern Virginia , Richmond . SIR : Lieutenant Fellers , Company G , Thirteenth Regiment of South Carolina Infantry , is now at Fortress Monroe ...
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Maj . Gen. JOHN E. WOOL , U. S. Army , Commanding Middle Department , Baltimore , Ma . SIR : In reply to your communication of the 16th instant the Secretary of War desires that General Pettigrew , Colonel Hanson and all the other ...
Maj . Gen. JOHN E. WOOL , U. S. Army , Commanding Middle Department , Baltimore , Ma . SIR : In reply to your communication of the 16th instant the Secretary of War desires that General Pettigrew , Colonel Hanson and all the other ...
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JOHN C. KELTON , Assistant Adjutant - General , Department of the Mississippi . COLONEL : I desire respectfully to ask the attention of the major . general commanding to what seems to me an abuse of the proper office of provost ...
JOHN C. KELTON , Assistant Adjutant - General , Department of the Mississippi . COLONEL : I desire respectfully to ask the attention of the major . general commanding to what seems to me an abuse of the proper office of provost ...
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| Title | The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies The War of the Rebellion, United States. Record and Pension Office The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, United States. War Records Office |
| Author | United States. War Department |
| Editors | Robert Nicholson Scott, George Breckenridge Davis, Frederick Crayton Ainsworth, Joseph William Kirkley |
| Compiled by | Calvin Duvall Cowles |
| Contributors | United States. War Records Office, United States. Record and Pension Office, United States. Congress. House |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 5 Apr 2018 |
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