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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... rear guard , with his rear skirmish line . On the 11th flag signals were established along the line of intrenchments from General Ames ' headquarters , near Battery No. 3 , to General Terry's headquarters at the Curtis house , and ...
... rear guard , with his rear skirmish line . On the 11th flag signals were established along the line of intrenchments from General Ames ' headquarters , near Battery No. 3 , to General Terry's headquarters at the Curtis house , and ...
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... rear of the center of my position , covering the entrance to a road leading to the rear . This was accomplished , and General Butler informed at 9.30 a . m . About this time I received verbal orders to move to the pike and cover Smith's ...
... rear of the center of my position , covering the entrance to a road leading to the rear . This was accomplished , and General Butler informed at 9.30 a . m . About this time I received verbal orders to move to the pike and cover Smith's ...
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United States. War Department. I reached a position on the pike in rear of the Half - Way House about noon , where I was informed that the entire command was to retire to our intrenchments . General Terry furnished the rear guard from ...
United States. War Department. I reached a position on the pike in rear of the Half - Way House about noon , where I was informed that the entire command was to retire to our intrenchments . General Terry furnished the rear guard from ...
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... rear of the right of the first of the enemy's line of in- trenchments defending Richmond from the south . At the station Colonel White's command was detached , and , accompanied by one piece of artillery , placed on a car by Captain ...
... rear of the right of the first of the enemy's line of in- trenchments defending Richmond from the south . At the station Colonel White's command was detached , and , accompanied by one piece of artillery , placed on a car by Captain ...
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... rear . Having the Seventh Connecticut and Seventh New Hampshire de- ployed on the right and left of the main road , facing the swamp , I was ordered to charge the work visible over the causeway across the swamp , the narrow road passing ...
... rear . Having the Seventh Connecticut and Seventh New Hampshire de- ployed on the right and left of the main road , facing the swamp , I was ordered to charge the work visible over the causeway across the swamp , the narrow road passing ...
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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