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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Page 228
... Yorktown . A few exchanges of shots with the enemy's bat- teries bearing upon the river front convinced the naval commanders that with wooden vessels they could not pass between Yorktown and Gloucester , nor could they encounter without ...
... Yorktown . A few exchanges of shots with the enemy's bat- teries bearing upon the river front convinced the naval commanders that with wooden vessels they could not pass between Yorktown and Gloucester , nor could they encounter without ...
Page 267
... Yorktown there was a battery , cousisting of five heavy columbiads , mounted on the heights of the town , directly opposite the Gloucester batteries , and commanding the river . That what has been called Cornwallis Cave was used as a ...
... Yorktown there was a battery , cousisting of five heavy columbiads , mounted on the heights of the town , directly opposite the Gloucester batteries , and commanding the river . That what has been called Cornwallis Cave was used as a ...
Page 334
... Yorktown front 1,850 yards , and distance to exterior redoubts 1,800 yards . Battery No. 3 ( seven 20 - pounder Parrotts ) , distance to exterior re- doubts 2,000 yards , and distance to Yorktown front 2,300 yards . Battery No. 4 ( ten ...
... Yorktown front 1,850 yards , and distance to exterior redoubts 1,800 yards . Battery No. 3 ( seven 20 - pounder Parrotts ) , distance to exterior re- doubts 2,000 yards , and distance to Yorktown front 2,300 yards . Battery No. 4 ( ten ...
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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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advance April arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery Bottom's Bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Burnt Chimneys camp Capt Captain cavalry charge Chickahominy Colonel command commenced companies Creek depot detached directed dispatch duty enemy enemy's engaged field Fifth fire flank force Fort Magruder Fort Monroe forward front guns Hanover Court-House Harrison's Landing HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman honor to report Hooker immediately infantry instant James River Keyes killed Lee's Mill Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Magruder Major-General Massachusetts MCCLELLAN miles morning moved night o'clock p. m. obedient servant occupied opened ordered pickets placed Porter position Potomac railroad re-enforcements rear rebel received reconnaissance redoubt regiment Report of Brig respectfully Richmond rifle pits road Savage Station Second sent shell siege skirmishers Smith Smith's division soon station Sumner tion troops U. S. Army White House Williamsburg woods wounded yards York Infantry York River York Volunteers Yorktown