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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... Richmond . General Kautz , with 3,000 cavalry from Suf- folk , on the same day with our movement up James River , forced the Blackwater , burned the railroad bridge at Stony Creek , below Petersburg , cutting in two Beauregard's force ...
... Richmond . General Kautz , with 3,000 cavalry from Suf- folk , on the same day with our movement up James River , forced the Blackwater , burned the railroad bridge at Stony Creek , below Petersburg , cutting in two Beauregard's force ...
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... Richmond press that General Kautz had cut the railroad at Coalfield and had safely arrived at the bridge over the Appomattox . Meanwhile we had assaulted and carried the first line of the enemy's works which extends from Drewry's Bluff ...
... Richmond press that General Kautz had cut the railroad at Coalfield and had safely arrived at the bridge over the Appomattox . Meanwhile we had assaulted and carried the first line of the enemy's works which extends from Drewry's Bluff ...
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... Richmond Railroad , and on reaching the turnpike flag signals were operated between the various portions of the Tenth Corps engaged . destroying the railroad and the headquarters of Major - General Gilmore . On the 10th the troops of ...
... Richmond Railroad , and on reaching the turnpike flag signals were operated between the various portions of the Tenth Corps engaged . destroying the railroad and the headquarters of Major - General Gilmore . On the 10th the troops of ...
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... Richmond , moved to the left , and during the after- noon took up a position facing Swift Creek , which we found occu- pied by the enemy in considerable force . We found this creek impassable for any kind of troops . The bridges were ...
... Richmond , moved to the left , and during the after- noon took up a position facing Swift Creek , which we found occu- pied by the enemy in considerable force . We found this creek impassable for any kind of troops . The bridges were ...
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... Richmond Railroad . Presuming that it was desirable to cut all the railroads lead- ing out of Petersburg , I could see no better way to do it than the one proposed . I had had no opportunity to confer with General Smith , until I met ...
... Richmond Railroad . Presuming that it was desirable to cut all the railroads lead- ing out of Petersburg , I could see no better way to do it than the one proposed . I had had no opportunity to confer with General Smith , until I met ...
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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