The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesSeries I: Contains the 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, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863. |
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... flank . The fog was so dense that nothing could be seen at a dis- tance , and the enemy's artillery were playing upon us with shell and case - shot . I went to the regiment next on my right , the Eighth Maine Volunteers , to ascertain ...
... flank . The fog was so dense that nothing could be seen at a dis- tance , and the enemy's artillery were playing upon us with shell and case - shot . I went to the regiment next on my right , the Eighth Maine Volunteers , to ascertain ...
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... flank , now resting on James River , while his center and left flank are kept engaged to prevent him from re - en- forcing his right flank . Major - General Ransom's division will to - night take position , the most favorable for attack ...
... flank , now resting on James River , while his center and left flank are kept engaged to prevent him from re - en- forcing his right flank . Major - General Ransom's division will to - night take position , the most favorable for attack ...
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... flank and rear . I directed the left - flank companies to be retired , and while the gallant Colonel Cabell was executing this order he fell mortally wounded , and many men and officers were laid low . Some misap- prehension of the ...
... flank and rear . I directed the left - flank companies to be retired , and while the gallant Colonel Cabell was executing this order he fell mortally wounded , and many men and officers were laid low . Some misap- prehension of the ...
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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