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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... reserve . Advancing down the slope in an open field just east of house , I sent forward skirmishers of the Seventh Connecticut , who were soon engaged . They moved through the wood about 200 yards to another field . Up a gentle slope ...
... reserve . Advancing down the slope in an open field just east of house , I sent forward skirmishers of the Seventh Connecticut , who were soon engaged . They moved through the wood about 200 yards to another field . Up a gentle slope ...
Page 60
... reserve , to the sum- mit of the slope , where a house had been burned , forcing the enemy to take to their earth - works , about 400 yards in front , leaving us in possession of the top of the hill , where fighting continued at ...
... reserve , to the sum- mit of the slope , where a house had been burned , forcing the enemy to take to their earth - works , about 400 yards in front , leaving us in possession of the top of the hill , where fighting continued at ...
Page 74
... reserve , and sending in the pioneers of the brigade with the Twenty- fourth the work of destruction commenced . Colonel Dandy with the One hundredth attacked the enemy with great vigor on my left , charging across the railroad and ...
... reserve , and sending in the pioneers of the brigade with the Twenty- fourth the work of destruction commenced . Colonel Dandy with the One hundredth attacked the enemy with great vigor on my left , charging across the railroad and ...
Page 77
... reserve to their position . III . No bands , drum corps , or bugles will be allowed to play or sound the calls , except in case of an alarm , until further orders . The discharge of fire - arms under any circumstances excepting as ...
... reserve to their position . III . No bands , drum corps , or bugles will be allowed to play or sound the calls , except in case of an alarm , until further orders . The discharge of fire - arms under any circumstances excepting as ...
Page 78
... reserve , I advanced to meet them . They proved to be the skirmishers of General Turner's division advanc- ing to recover the communication lost in our rapid flank move- ment the day before . At 8 a . m . we advanced on the enemy's ...
... reserve , I advanced to meet them . They proved to be the skirmishers of General Turner's division advanc- ing to recover the communication lost in our rapid flank move- ment the day before . At 8 a . m . we advanced on the enemy's ...
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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