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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... guard were mounted and left on our approach . 17th instant , sent Jonas to Balfour Hospital , Ports- mouth . 19th instant , Private Delaney reported for duty from Signal Camp , Camp Hamilton . 21st , our forces at Powhatan were attacked ...
... guard were mounted and left on our approach . 17th instant , sent Jonas to Balfour Hospital , Ports- mouth . 19th instant , Private Delaney reported for duty from Signal Camp , Camp Hamilton . 21st , our forces at Powhatan were attacked ...
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... guard the approaches from 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 ...
... guard the approaches from 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 ...
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... guard from his division . The enemy did not follow or annoy us , but on the following day established himself in our front and in- trenched himself so as to cover the railroad . On the 20th a vig- orous attack was made on my pickets and ...
... guard from his division . The enemy did not follow or annoy us , but on the following day established himself in our front and in- trenched himself so as to cover the railroad . On the 20th a vig- orous attack was made on my pickets and ...
Page 64
... guard ; straggling skirmishers were seen falling back toward the works on our right ; the enemy's fire began to enfi- lade our lines from the woods on the right ; the position was critical . I sent at last the question to the right ...
... guard ; straggling skirmishers were seen falling back toward the works on our right ; the enemy's fire began to enfi- lade our lines from the woods on the right ; the position was critical . I sent at last the question to the right ...
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... guard thence to our picket - line . We reached our camp inside the intrenchments at 8 p . m . During the entire movement the conduct of the officers and men of the regiment was unexceptionable . The men behaved with un- flinching ...
... guard thence to our picket - line . We reached our camp inside the intrenchments at 8 p . m . During the entire movement the conduct of the officers and men of the regiment was unexceptionable . The men behaved with un- flinching ...
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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