The War of the Rebellion: v. 1-53 [serial no. 1-111] 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, order and returns relating specially thereto. 1880-1898. 111 vU.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - Confederate States of America Official 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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... effect all this and more . The rebels have displayed energy , unanimity , and wisdom worthy of the most desperate days of the French revolution . Should we do less t The unity of this nation , the preservation of our institutions , are ...
... effect all this and more . The rebels have displayed energy , unanimity , and wisdom worthy of the most desperate days of the French revolution . Should we do less t The unity of this nation , the preservation of our institutions , are ...
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... effect to drive them away . Perhaps a slight demonstration on your part would have the effect to move them . Brig . Gen. C. P. STONE , Poolesville . A. V. COLBURN , Assistant Adjutant - General . Deeming it possible that General ...
... effect to drive them away . Perhaps a slight demonstration on your part would have the effect to move them . Brig . Gen. C. P. STONE , Poolesville . A. V. COLBURN , Assistant Adjutant - General . Deeming it possible that General ...
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... effect of inducing the enemy to abandon Leesburg , and the dispatch from Sugar Loaf appearing to confirm this view , I wished General Stone , who had only a line of pickets on the river - the mass of his troops being out of sight of and ...
... effect of inducing the enemy to abandon Leesburg , and the dispatch from Sugar Loaf appearing to confirm this view , I wished General Stone , who had only a line of pickets on the river - the mass of his troops being out of sight of and ...
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... effect this , and was instructed to collect all the canal - boats he could find and use them for crossing at Edwards Ferry in sufficient force to enable the troops already there to hold the opposite side . On the 22d I went to the ...
... effect this , and was instructed to collect all the canal - boats he could find and use them for crossing at Edwards Ferry in sufficient force to enable the troops already there to hold the opposite side . On the 22d I went to the ...
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... effect that large bodies of the enemy had been ordered from Manassas to Leesburg to cut off our troops on the Virginia side . Their timely withdrawal had probably prevented a still more serious disaster . I refer to General Stone's ...
... effect that large bodies of the enemy had been ordered from Manassas to Leesburg to cut off our troops on the Virginia side . Their timely withdrawal had probably prevented a still more serious disaster . I refer to General Stone's ...
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advance arrived Assistant Adjutant-General attack August Baltimore Banks battery bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General camp Capt Captain cavalry Centreville Colonel column Commanding Division companies corps Cotton Hill Creek cross Department detachment direction dispatch duty Edwards Ferry enemy enemy's Fairfax Court-House field fire flank Floyd force Fort Monroe front Gauley guard guns Harper's Ferry HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY Hill honor horses immediately infantry instant instructions intrenchments JOSEPH HOOKER Kanawha killed Leesburg Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major-General Manassas Maryland MCCLELLAN ment miles militia morning Mountain move movement night November o'clock p. m. obedient servant occupied officers Ohio Pennsylvania pickets Pohick Church Poolesville position Potomac railroad re-enforcements rear rebels received regiment respectfully retreat rifled river road Romney ROSECRANS scouts Secretary of War sent side skirmishers tion troops turnpike U. S. Army wagons Washington Western Virginia WILLIAMS Winchester woods wounded York Volunteers