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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Page 42
... skirmishing , in getting our batteries into position , and in a heavy cannonade upon the redoubt directly in front of my right . The enemy's sharpshooters and skirmishers were very annoying , and a strong effort was made to drive them ...
... skirmishing , in getting our batteries into position , and in a heavy cannonade upon the redoubt directly in front of my right . The enemy's sharpshooters and skirmishers were very annoying , and a strong effort was made to drive them ...
Page 43
... skirmishers commenced along my whole front and along the line to my right . This soon increased to a very heavy firing of musketry and artillery , and it became evident that the enemy , taking advan- tage of a dense fog to conceal the ...
... skirmishers commenced along my whole front and along the line to my right . This soon increased to a very heavy firing of musketry and artillery , and it became evident that the enemy , taking advan- tage of a dense fog to conceal the ...
Page 46
... skirmishers , the Thirty - ninth Illinois Volunteers supporting . At or near Bottom Church we met the enemy's pickets or skirmishers and drove them back beyond Dr. Howlett's house and there took our position until relieved by Colonel ...
... skirmishers , the Thirty - ninth Illinois Volunteers supporting . At or near Bottom Church we met the enemy's pickets or skirmishers and drove them back beyond Dr. Howlett's house and there took our position until relieved by Colonel ...
Page 52
... skirmishers of the Seventh Connecticut , who were soon engaged . They moved through the wood about 200 yards to another field . Up a gentle slope about 400 yards distant was a fine house with garden fences and outbuildings , and beyond ...
... skirmishers of the Seventh Connecticut , who were soon engaged . They moved through the wood about 200 yards to another field . Up a gentle slope about 400 yards distant was a fine house with garden fences and outbuildings , and beyond ...
Page 64
... skirmishers , strongly re - enforced , and 2 or 3 feet apart . In the woods on the left this attack was extremely rapid and sudden . A few steps placed the enemy in our pits , in a position which , favored by the direction of part of ...
... skirmishers , strongly re - enforced , and 2 or 3 feet apart . In the woods on the left this attack was extremely rapid and sudden . A few steps placed the enemy in our pits , in a position which , favored by the direction of part of ...
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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