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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... pickets in front of the division and in front of Ames ' division . The picket - line was driven and the enemy occupied our rifle - pits . The line was afterward regained by a charge of the First Brigade , re - enforced by the Sixth ...
... pickets in front of the division and in front of Ames ' division . The picket - line was driven and the enemy occupied our rifle - pits . The line was afterward regained by a charge of the First Brigade , re - enforced by the Sixth ...
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... pickets or skirmishers and drove them back beyond Dr. Howlett's house and there took our position until relieved by Colonel Howell , about 3 p . m . , the most of my regiment remaining on picket . During the night following the rest of ...
... pickets or skirmishers and drove them back beyond Dr. Howlett's house and there took our position until relieved by Colonel Howell , about 3 p . m . , the most of my regiment remaining on picket . During the night following the rest of ...
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... pickets were wounded during the night . Put under arms at about 6 a : m . on the 13th and moved on to the Richmond ... picket . On the morning of the 14th , at about day- light , Major Sanford moved forward with five companies , support ...
... pickets were wounded during the night . Put under arms at about 6 a : m . on the 13th and moved on to the Richmond ... picket . On the morning of the 14th , at about day- light , Major Sanford moved forward with five companies , support ...
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... pickets was 150 yards from ours , but in the woods on each side it came at some points to within 20 yards of our own . Up to half an hour after sunrise on the 2d there was perfect quiet along our entire front , although toward midnight ...
... pickets was 150 yards from ours , but in the woods on each side it came at some points to within 20 yards of our own . Up to half an hour after sunrise on the 2d there was perfect quiet along our entire front , although toward midnight ...
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... picket duty , where during the night we dug a ditch for cover as best we could with tin pans , dippers , plates , & c . Next morning ( 15th ) the enemy commenced firing upon us , which was returned , and heavy firing continued all day ...
... picket duty , where during the night we dug a ditch for cover as best we could with tin pans , dippers , plates , & c . Next morning ( 15th ) the enemy commenced firing upon us , which was returned , and heavy firing continued all day ...
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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