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 121
... trains mean . I think they mean ammunition and supplies . Certain it is that 1,000 men can march 8 miles sooner than they can be loaded and unloaded on a railroad train and carried 8 miles . I have ordered all the rifled guns up . I ...
... trains mean . I think they mean ammunition and supplies . Certain it is that 1,000 men can march 8 miles sooner than they can be loaded and unloaded on a railroad train and carried 8 miles . I have ordered all the rifled guns up . I ...
Page 123
... trains to move rapidly to the rear and beyond the Half - Way House . May 16 , 9.30 a . m . - To direct General Brooks to have his right move by the flank , and follow General Weitzel's left , when his ( Weitzel's ) division moved to the ...
... trains to move rapidly to the rear and beyond the Half - Way House . May 16 , 9.30 a . m . - To direct General Brooks to have his right move by the flank , and follow General Weitzel's left , when his ( Weitzel's ) division moved to the ...
Page 172
... train of three or four wagons of commis- sary and other stores . Bolling's Bridge was defended by a picket of infantry ... trains were due between 5 and 6 o'clock . The Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry , under Col. S. P. Spear , I sent down ...
... train of three or four wagons of commis- sary and other stores . Bolling's Bridge was defended by a picket of infantry ... trains were due between 5 and 6 o'clock . The Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry , under Col. S. P. Spear , I sent down ...
Page 173
... trains loaded with troops . Two of the trains had returned empty . The engine of the third came down to recon- noiter the depot and was captured by running off the track at the switch ; the negro fireman came to us , but the engineer ...
... trains loaded with troops . Two of the trains had returned empty . The engine of the third came down to recon- noiter the depot and was captured by running off the track at the switch ; the negro fireman came to us , but the engineer ...
Page 174
... train of freight - cars were here destroyed , and quite a portion of the track torn up , after which the command ... trains to cross over the Nottoway , replacing the bridge we had de- stroyed on the 8th . It was guarded , and late ...
... train of freight - cars were here destroyed , and quite a portion of the track torn up , after which the command ... trains to cross over the Nottoway , replacing the bridge we had de- stroyed on the 8th . It was guarded , and late ...
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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