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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... Petersburg , cutting in two Beauregard's force at that point , and is now operating against Hicksford and Weldon . We have landed here , intrenched ourselves , destroyed many miles of railroad , and got a position which , with proper ...
... Petersburg , cutting in two Beauregard's force at that point , and is now operating against Hicksford and Weldon . We have landed here , intrenched ourselves , destroyed many miles of railroad , and got a position which , with proper ...
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... Petersburg , in an endeavor to get pos- session of my intrenched lines . The attack was handsomely repulsed . We hold the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond . Prison- ers inform us that Davis and Bragg were present in person ...
... Petersburg , in an endeavor to get pos- session of my intrenched lines . The attack was handsomely repulsed . We hold the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond . Prison- ers inform us that Davis and Bragg were present in person ...
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... Petersburg of the enemy's movements and of our advanced forces , who were advancing toward Petersburg from our lines nearly oppo- site Fort Clifton . Shortly after commencing my observations Gen- eral Butler , accompanied by a staff ...
... Petersburg of the enemy's movements and of our advanced forces , who were advancing toward Petersburg from our lines nearly oppo- site Fort Clifton . Shortly after commencing my observations Gen- eral Butler , accompanied by a staff ...
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... Petersburg on the 9th of June , 1864 , was made to Gen- eral Butler , and by him forwarded , as he officially informed me , to the War Department , where it will doubtless be found on file . I have been unable to find a copy of it among ...
... Petersburg on the 9th of June , 1864 , was made to Gen- eral Butler , and by him forwarded , as he officially informed me , to the War Department , where it will doubtless be found on file . I have been unable to find a copy of it among ...
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... Petersburg on that side . Such a bridge can readily be constructed in one night , and all the work of cutting the road and perhaps capturing the city can be accomplished in one day , without involving us in heavy losses . If we should ...
... Petersburg on that side . Such a bridge can readily be constructed in one night , and all the work of cutting the road and perhaps capturing the city can be accomplished in one day , without involving us in heavy losses . If we should ...
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A. A. HUMPHREYS advance Aide-de-Camp ammunition artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery Belle Plain Bermuda Hundred bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General camp Capt Captain cavalry Chief of Staff City Point Colonel Comdg command of Major-General companies Creek dispatch Drewry's Bluff Eighteenth Army enemy enemy's FIFTH ARMY CORPS Fifth Corps fire flank force Fort Monroe Fredericksburg front G. K. WARREN HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY honor infantry intrenchments James River Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Lieutenant-General GRANT line of battle Major-General and Chief Major-General BURNSIDE major-general commanding directs Major-General HANCOCK Major-General HUMPHREYS Major-General Meade Major-General WARREN miles morning move NINTH ARMY North Carolina obedient servant officers ordered p. m. Major-General Petersburg picket-line pickets plank road position POTOMAC Q. A. GILLMORE railroad rear rebel received regiment respectfully Richmond SECOND CORPS sent Sixth Corps skirmishers Spotsylvania Court-House Station TENTH ARMY CORPS to-morrow trains troops turnpike U. S. GRANT Volunteers wagons WINF'D wounded