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, 1890 - 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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... batteries on that island to assist in the reduction of Fort Sumter . The establishment of these batteries and the reduction of the enemy's works - Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg - being a matter of engineering skill , Brig . Gen. ( now ...
... batteries on that island to assist in the reduction of Fort Sumter . The establishment of these batteries and the reduction of the enemy's works - Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg - being a matter of engineering skill , Brig . Gen. ( now ...
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... Battery Gregg , on Cumming's Point , was supposed to mount two or three guns for channel defense only . 77. The truly formidable character of Fort Wagner and the great strength and capacity of its bomb - proof shelter were very much ...
... Battery Gregg , on Cumming's Point , was supposed to mount two or three guns for channel defense only . 77. The truly formidable character of Fort Wagner and the great strength and capacity of its bomb - proof shelter were very much ...
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... Battery Gregg possessed any special importance as a defense against the passage of the iron - clad fleet . They were simple out- posts of Fort Sumter . Fort Wagner was specially designed to pre- vent the erection of breaching batteries ...
... Battery Gregg possessed any special importance as a defense against the passage of the iron - clad fleet . They were simple out- posts of Fort Sumter . Fort Wagner was specially designed to pre- vent the erection of breaching batteries ...
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... Battery Kearny , First Lieut . S. S. Atwell , Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry , commanding , comprising three 30 - pounder Parrott rifles and three Coe- horn mortars . The guns will operate against Battery Gregg with shot and ...
... Battery Kearny , First Lieut . S. S. Atwell , Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry , commanding , comprising three 30 - pounder Parrott rifles and three Coe- horn mortars . The guns will operate against Battery Gregg with shot and ...
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United States. War Department. Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg were at once strengthened , and additional defensive works on the island constructed . A powerful armament of mortars and rifled guns was placed in position on the north end of ...
United States. War Department. Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg were at once strengthened , and additional defensive works on the island constructed . A powerful armament of mortars and rifled guns was placed in position on the north end of ...
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advance assault Assistant Adjutant-General attack August Battalion Battery Gregg Battery Simkins Battery Wagner Beauregard boats bomb-proof bombardment breaching Brig brigade Brigadier-General Brooke gun Capt Captain casualties Charleston Cheves Colonel columbiad commanding Company Creek Cumming's Point directed duty end of Morris Folly Island force Fort Johnson Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Georgia gunboats Hagood harbor headquarters Hilton Head howitzers infantry iron-clads Ironsides James Island Johnson July Keitt land batteries last night Lieut Lieutenant Light-House Inlet magazine marsh Military District monitors morning Morris Island mortar shells Moultrie o'clock obedient servant officers opened fire operations ordnance Otter Island parapet Parrott rifles party pickets position re-enforcements rear regiment respectfully Ripley Saint Helena Island sand-bags second parallel September sharpshooters shots were fired siege signal steamer Stono Sullivan's Island Sumter telegraph teries to-day transports troops vessels Volunteer Engineers Wagner and Gregg wounded yards