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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... connection with Hancock's movement . A. A. HUMPHREYS , Major - General and Chief of Staff . HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS , May 20 , 1864. ( Received 10.40 a . m . ) Major - General HUMPHREYS : The only trains from this corps between ...
... connection with Hancock's movement . A. A. HUMPHREYS , Major - General and Chief of Staff . HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS , May 20 , 1864. ( Received 10.40 a . m . ) Major - General HUMPHREYS : The only trains from this corps between ...
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... connection with General Wright , to feel for the enemy , and to keep him employed . It is not designed to attack him behind his intrenchments , but to find out all that can be learned of his position and nature of his works and the ...
... connection with General Wright , to feel for the enemy , and to keep him employed . It is not designed to attack him behind his intrenchments , but to find out all that can be learned of his position and nature of his works and the ...
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... connection with any infantry you may desire to send . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , FRANCIS A. WALKER , Assistant Adjutant - General . [ Col. F. A. WALKER ? ] HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION , May 22 , 1864-12 m . COLONEL : My ...
... connection with any infantry you may desire to send . Very respectfully , your obedient servant , FRANCIS A. WALKER , Assistant Adjutant - General . [ Col. F. A. WALKER ? ] HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION , May 22 , 1864-12 m . COLONEL : My ...
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... connection with it . I am massing my troops in front of the position . A prisoner was captured yesterday , who just came from the defenses of Savannah . He says that all the troops there have been ordered up here . WINF'D S. HANCOCK ...
... connection with it . I am massing my troops in front of the position . A prisoner was captured yesterday , who just came from the defenses of Savannah . He says that all the troops there have been ordered up here . WINF'D S. HANCOCK ...
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... connection . Behind this redoubt the bridge leads across the river , and on their side of the river there are five or six redoubts also said to have been built some months since ; these command the island . This evening late two ...
... connection . Behind this redoubt the bridge leads across the river , and on their side of the river there are five or six redoubts also said to have been built some months since ; these command the island . This evening late two ...
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A. A. HUMPHREYS A. E. BURNSIDE Artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack Battalion battery Belle Plain Birney bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Capt Captain CAVALRY CORPS Chief of Staff City Point Cold Harbor Colonel command of Major-General Commanding Ninth crossing dispatch EIGHTEENTH ARMY enemy enemy's Fifth Corps force Fort Monroe Fort Powhatan Fredericksburg front G. K. WARREN Haw's Shop HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY Infantry intrenchments J. H. WILSON James River June Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel 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 CORPS North Carolina obedient servant officer p. m. Major-General p. m. Received picket-line pickets position POTOMAC railroad rear Regiment respectfully Richmond road SECOND ARMY CORPS Second Division sent Sixth Corps skirmish line Smith TENTH ARMY Third Division to-day to-morrow to-night Virginia Volunteers wagons White House WILLIAMS WINF'D