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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... held the evening before was occupied . By order of General McPherson , the troops at once commenced to reverse the works . The Fifteenth Corps was moved up to the rebel line in the same position , by divisions , as it held the previous ...
... held the evening before was occupied . By order of General McPherson , the troops at once commenced to reverse the works . The Fifteenth Corps was moved up to the rebel line in the same position , by divisions , as it held the previous ...
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... held the Bald Hill . General Giles A. Smith also held the greater part of his position on the ex- treme left . Both divisions had been attacked from the rear , and had fought from the outside of their works , and were at that time ...
... held the Bald Hill . General Giles A. Smith also held the greater part of his position on the ex- treme left . Both divisions had been attacked from the rear , and had fought from the outside of their works , and were at that time ...
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... held , I ordered General Blair , as soon as it could be done with safety , to bring his Fourth Division back to such a line that its right should connect with Leggett's left , and the left of the division with Colonel Wangelin's brigade ...
... held , I ordered General Blair , as soon as it could be done with safety , to bring his Fourth Division back to such a line that its right should connect with Leggett's left , and the left of the division with Colonel Wangelin's brigade ...
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... held nearly the whole of its ground . About 6 another force advanced from the direction of Atlanta . General Smith had scarcely changed position to the east side of his works , when the enemy opened upon his left and rear a heavy fire ...
... held nearly the whole of its ground . About 6 another force advanced from the direction of Atlanta . General Smith had scarcely changed position to the east side of his works , when the enemy opened upon his left and rear a heavy fire ...
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... held on our left . Al- General Cox's division , of the Twenty - third Corps , which was stationed on the Decatur road , was relieved in the morning . though the division was not engaged , I am under obligations to General Schofield for ...
... held on our left . Al- General Cox's division , of the Twenty - third Corps , which was stationed on the Decatur road , was relieved in the morning . though the division was not engaged , I am under obligations to General Schofield for ...
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Acworth Alabama Army of Tennessee arrived artillery assault Assistant Adjutant-General Atlanta attack August Battalion battery breast-works Brig Brigadier-General C. S. Army camp Capt Captain captured casualties cavalry charge Chattahoochee Chattahoochee River Colonel command Company crossed Decatur driving enemy engaged enlisted evacuated fall back Fifteenth Army Corps Fifteenth Corps fire force Fourth Division front gallantry Georgia guns Hardee's HDQRS headquarters heavy hill honor Illinois Illinois Infantry Infantry intrenched Iowa Iowa Infantry Jonesborough July 22 June Kenesaw Mountain killed Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle loss Major-General mand marched Marietta miles Mississippi Missouri morning moved forward Nickajack Creek night o'clock obedient servant occupied officers operations July Osterhaus pickets prisoners railroad rear rebel regiment relieved remained repulsed Resaca respectfully rifle-pits River road Second Brigade Second Division September Seventeenth Army Corps Seventeenth Corps Sixteenth skirmish line Special Field Orders Tennessee Third Brigade took position troops Volunteers William wounded yards