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, 1891 - 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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... Resaca in force . Have you any more definite reports than I indicate . Are you prepared to make an attack on the Buzzard Roost , and how ? Yours , SHERMAN , Major - General . HDQRS . DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND , Tunnel Hill , May 8 ...
... Resaca in force . Have you any more definite reports than I indicate . Are you prepared to make an attack on the Buzzard Roost , and how ? Yours , SHERMAN , Major - General . HDQRS . DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND , Tunnel Hill , May 8 ...
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... Resaca . I have parked my trains near the west en- trance and left two brigades to guard them . No news from Garrard . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , JAS . B. MCPHERSON , Major - General , Commanding . HDQRS . DEPARTMENT ...
... Resaca . I have parked my trains near the west en- trance and left two brigades to guard them . No news from Garrard . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , JAS . B. MCPHERSON , Major - General , Commanding . HDQRS . DEPARTMENT ...
Page 105
... Resaca , At intersection of Cross - Roads , May 9 , 1864-12.30 p . m . Maj . Gen. W. T. SHERMAN , Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi : GENERAL : We met one brigade of rebel cavalry shortly after we emerged from the gap this ...
... Resaca , At intersection of Cross - Roads , May 9 , 1864-12.30 p . m . Maj . Gen. W. T. SHERMAN , Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi : GENERAL : We met one brigade of rebel cavalry shortly after we emerged from the gap this ...
Page 106
... Resaca this afternoon . While that was going on one company of mounted infantry , Lieutenant - Colonel Phillips ' regiment , succeeded in reaching the railroad near Tilton Station , but was forced to leave without damaging the track ...
... Resaca this afternoon . While that was going on one company of mounted infantry , Lieutenant - Colonel Phillips ' regiment , succeeded in reaching the railroad near Tilton Station , but was forced to leave without damaging the track ...
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... Resaca , when I will swing round through Snake Creek Gap , and interpose between him and Georgia . I am not driving things too fast , because I want two columns of cavalry that are rapidly coming up to me from the rear , Stoneman on my ...
... Resaca , when I will swing round through Snake Creek Gap , and interpose between him and Georgia . I am not driving things too fast , because I want two columns of cavalry that are rapidly coming up to me from the rear , Stoneman on my ...
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Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Acworth Adairsville advance Allatoona artillery attack battery Big Shanty bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Captain cavalry Cavalry Division Chattanooga Chief of Staff Colonel cross CUMBERLAND Dallas Dalton Decatur DEPARTMENT AND ARMY dispatch enemy enemy's Etowah Fifteenth Army Corps flank force FOURTEENTH ARMY FOURTH ARMY CORPS front Garrard HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY Huntsville infantry J. M. SCHOFIELD June June 19 June 27 Kingston Lieut Lieutenant-General major-general commanding Major-General SCHOFIELD Major-General SHERMAN Major-General THOMAS Marietta McPherson miles MISSISSIPPI move movement Nashville obedient servant officer Ohio p. m. Major-General pickets POLK position Powder Springs railroad rear rebel regiment Resaca respectfully ridge Ringgold river Rome Sandtown Second Division sent skirmishers SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS Stoneman Tenn Tennessee Third Division to-day to-night train troops Tunnel Hill Twentieth Army Twentieth Army Corps TWENTIETH CORPS Twenty-third Army Corps Villanow W. T. SHERMAN wagons WHIPPLE