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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... moving to the right . Keep up the connection by moving to left ( right ) . B. F. BUTLER , Major - General . Lieutenant Michie , of the Engineers , delivered to me a verbal order from the major - general commanding , as follows : Move by ...
... moving to the right . Keep up the connection by moving to left ( right ) . B. F. BUTLER , Major - General . Lieutenant Michie , of the Engineers , delivered to me a verbal order from the major - general commanding , as follows : Move by ...
Page 39
... move to the pike and cover Smith's left . About 9.50 the following written order came : General GILLMORE : 9.30 ... move to your right and rear of Smith to hold the turnpike , Smith pressing to his right to hold a road there . Smith can ...
... move to the pike and cover Smith's left . About 9.50 the following written order came : General GILLMORE : 9.30 ... move to your right and rear of Smith to hold the turnpike , Smith pressing to his right to hold a road there . Smith can ...
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... move to the rear and gain the turnpike . This move- ment was effected with scarcely any molestation from the enemy . The Twenty - fourth Massachusetts and the Tenth Connecticut , of Plaisted's brigade , were sent to re - enforce the ...
... move to the rear and gain the turnpike . This move- ment was effected with scarcely any molestation from the enemy . The Twenty - fourth Massachusetts and the Tenth Connecticut , of Plaisted's brigade , were sent to re - enforce the ...
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... move the regiment as quickly as possible down the road to the west of the turnpike , and to form line of battle to resist the enemy in that direction . I moved forward as fast as the exhausted condition of the men would permit , and at ...
... move the regiment as quickly as possible down the road to the west of the turnpike , and to form line of battle to resist the enemy in that direction . I moved forward as fast as the exhausted condition of the men would permit , and at ...
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... move in line of battle through the woods to the turnpike ; thence through the woods east of the turnpike to a road parallel to it ; thence down this road till I joined the Seventh Connecticut on my right . Re- maining here till about ...
... move in line of battle through the woods to the turnpike ; thence through the woods east of the turnpike to a road parallel to it ; thence down this road till I joined the Seventh Connecticut on my right . Re- maining here till about ...
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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