The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesSeries I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863. |
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... Hanover Court - House parallel to the Pamunkey . After a fatiguing march of 14 miles through the mud and rain Gen- eral Emory at noon reached a point about 2 miles from Hanover Court- House where the road forks to Ashland , and found a ...
... Hanover Court - House parallel to the Pamunkey . After a fatiguing march of 14 miles through the mud and rain Gen- eral Emory at noon reached a point about 2 miles from Hanover Court- House where the road forks to Ashland , and found a ...
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... Hanover Court - House was taken and destroyed . Having reason to believe that General Anderson , with a strong force , was still at Ashland , I ordered General Sykes ' division of regulars to move on the 28th from New Bridge toward Hanover ...
... Hanover Court - House was taken and destroyed . Having reason to believe that General Anderson , with a strong force , was still at Ashland , I ordered General Sykes ' division of regulars to move on the 28th from New Bridge toward Hanover ...
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... Hanover Court - House , where we came in presence of the enemy . Here preparations were at once made for battle by sending forward as skirmishers on the direct road to Hanover Court - House the Twenty- fifth New York Volunteers ...
... Hanover Court - House , where we came in presence of the enemy . Here preparations were at once made for battle by sending forward as skirmishers on the direct road to Hanover Court - House the Twenty- fifth New York Volunteers ...
Contents
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS | 3 |
April 12 1862 Headquarters Army of the Potomac transferred to vicinity of Fort | 44 |
over the Departments of Norfolk and the Peninsula | 423 |
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