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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... Johnson , and they were otherwise materially strengthened . 11. Several batteries were also established on the shell beach run- ning in a southeasterly direction from Fort Johnson . 12. Heavy guns were mounted upon the wharves of the ...
... Johnson , and they were otherwise materially strengthened . 11. Several batteries were also established on the shell beach run- ning in a southeasterly direction from Fort Johnson . 12. Heavy guns were mounted upon the wharves of the ...
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... Johnson to be converted into gun batteries for one heavy rifled gun or 10 - inch columbiad each ; to strengthen the gorge wall of Fort Sumter by means of wet cotton bales , filled in between with sand , and kept moist by means of tubes ...
... Johnson to be converted into gun batteries for one heavy rifled gun or 10 - inch columbiad each ; to strengthen the gorge wall of Fort Sumter by means of wet cotton bales , filled in between with sand , and kept moist by means of tubes ...
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... Johnson by two 6.40 - inch Brooke guns turned over by the Navy Department , and to place floating torpedoes in certain localities . Brigadier - General Mercer was directed to forward a detachment of artillerists to relieve those of the ...
... Johnson by two 6.40 - inch Brooke guns turned over by the Navy Department , and to place floating torpedoes in certain localities . Brigadier - General Mercer was directed to forward a detachment of artillerists to relieve those of the ...
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... Johnson to be arranged for two additional 10 - inch guns , and posi- tions to be prepared for the 10 - inch guns to be placed on the James Island shore of the harbor . Battery Wagner was bombarded heavily by the enemy about day- light ...
... Johnson to be arranged for two additional 10 - inch guns , and posi- tions to be prepared for the 10 - inch guns to be placed on the James Island shore of the harbor . Battery Wagner was bombarded heavily by the enemy about day- light ...
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... Johnson to Battery Glover ? 15th . How could we have then maintained our communications with Sumter and Morris Island , his iron - clads having command , meanwhile , of the outer harbor ? 16th . Was it not a fortunate circumstance the ...
... Johnson to Battery Glover ? 15th . How could we have then maintained our communications with Sumter and Morris Island , his iron - clads having command , meanwhile , of the outer harbor ? 16th . Was it not a fortunate circumstance the ...
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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