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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United States. War Department. number ready to dispatch to - day , but I hope to send them to Wash- ington to - morrow . There are 30 in custody , 9 of whom are suspected of having been engaged in conveying our wounded to Richmond . ED ...
United States. War Department. number ready to dispatch to - day , but I hope to send them to Wash- ington to - morrow . There are 30 in custody , 9 of whom are suspected of having been engaged in conveying our wounded to Richmond . ED ...
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... Dispatch received . I have sent the Burnside , two launches , and 60 men to aid in scouring the River Rappahannock . She will be there in twenty - four hours . Rear - Admiral S. P. LEE : BENJ . F. BUTLER , Major - General , Commanding ...
... Dispatch received . I have sent the Burnside , two launches , and 60 men to aid in scouring the River Rappahannock . She will be there in twenty - four hours . Rear - Admiral S. P. LEE : BENJ . F. BUTLER , Major - General , Commanding ...
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... dispatch from Gen- eral Butler , asking for 1,500 axes in great haste . We have none on hand ; 1,000 are due on requisitions . Will you have 1,500 sent at once ? Colonel Shaffer telegraphs “ have no uneasiness about us ; we are all ...
... dispatch from Gen- eral Butler , asking for 1,500 axes in great haste . We have none on hand ; 1,000 are due on requisitions . Will you have 1,500 sent at once ? Colonel Shaffer telegraphs “ have no uneasiness about us ; we are all ...
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... dispatch dated 7.30 p . m . was received at 10.30 . You had better draw in your line according to the suggestions of my dispatch of 5.30 p . m . The weakness of your works requires this and that we take no risks . You will see to it ...
... dispatch dated 7.30 p . m . was received at 10.30 . You had better draw in your line according to the suggestions of my dispatch of 5.30 p . m . The weakness of your works requires this and that we take no risks . You will see to it ...
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... dispatch , especially in front of and on the right of the Third Rhode Island Artillery and colored cavalry howitzer battery . ( 3 ) Artillery should all be placed in embrasure . ( 1 ) The traverses should be strengthened . ( 1 ) Redoubt ...
... dispatch , especially in front of and on the right of the Third Rhode Island Artillery and colored cavalry howitzer battery . ( 3 ) Artillery should all be placed in embrasure . ( 1 ) The traverses should be strengthened . ( 1 ) Redoubt ...
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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