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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It is time he had received from Mr. Fuller blankets enough to keep him warm , but his tent ( to give it that name ) was no larger than a small blanket stretched over a switch ridge pole two feet from the ground and did not reach it by a ...
It is time he had received from Mr. Fuller blankets enough to keep him warm , but his tent ( to give it that name ) was no larger than a small blanket stretched over a switch ridge pole two feet from the ground and did not reach it by a ...
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In this way the distribution would be more equal and give greater satisfaction than the method now pursued of turning over the allotment of a tribe to a chief for distribution . A company or two of soldiers whose presence will be ...
In this way the distribution would be more equal and give greater satisfaction than the method now pursued of turning over the allotment of a tribe to a chief for distribution . A company or two of soldiers whose presence will be ...
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Considering their condition the rebels try to carry things with quite too high a hand . They have at all times acted upon the assumption that they had a right in negotiating exchanges to give up whom they pleased and to keep whom they ...
Considering their condition the rebels try to carry things with quite too high a hand . They have at all times acted upon the assumption that they had a right in negotiating exchanges to give up whom they pleased and to keep whom they ...
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... good Union citizens , he having made threats against some of them and having taken property from Union men who had left their farms on the approach of the enemy and refusing afterwards to give any account of it .
... good Union citizens , he having made threats against some of them and having taken property from Union men who had left their farms on the approach of the enemy and refusing afterwards to give any account of it .
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Send a complete roll with them , and under the head of remarks give the date of their joining the depot and where from and the date of their transfer to Fort Warren . There are possibly among the prisoners some who are disposed to ...
Send a complete roll with them , and under the head of remarks give the date of their joining the depot and where from and the date of their transfer to Fort Warren . There are possibly among the prisoners some who are disposed to ...
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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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