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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... Major Bailey , Third Rhode Island Artillery , as assistant , is assigned to the command of Batteries Hays and O'Rorke . These batteries will be opened upon Fort Wagner immediately after break of day to - morrow . The firing must be ...
... Major Bailey , Third Rhode Island Artillery , as assistant , is assigned to the command of Batteries Hays and O'Rorke . These batteries will be opened upon Fort Wagner immediately after break of day to - morrow . The firing must be ...
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... Major Brooks ' report , p . 264 . 2 R R - VOL XXVIII , PT I tance from that work was 4,200 yards . Major Brooks CHAP . XL . ] 17 GENERAL REPORTS .
... Major Brooks ' report , p . 264 . 2 R R - VOL XXVIII , PT I tance from that work was 4,200 yards . Major Brooks CHAP . XL . ] 17 GENERAL REPORTS .
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... Major Brooks , assistant engineer , upon whom this duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the impracticability of such an undertaking , under the heavy , direct , and flank fire to which the ...
... Major Brooks , assistant engineer , upon whom this duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the impracticability of such an undertaking , under the heavy , direct , and flank fire to which the ...
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... Major- General Hunter , with a communication of my own , stating that act- ing signal officers were pledged to divulge no part of the system or code to any person , excepting those properly authorized to be in- structed . My ...
... Major- General Hunter , with a communication of my own , stating that act- ing signal officers were pledged to divulge no part of the system or code to any person , excepting those properly authorized to be in- structed . My ...
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... major - general com- manding that the line was ready for duty . He sent a message to General Seymour at Hilton Head , and as General Seymour did not reply for some hours , the reply started just at night , and a fog pre- vented its ...
... major - general com- manding that the line was ready for duty . He sent a message to General Seymour at Hilton Head , and as General Seymour did not reply for some hours , the reply started just at night , and a fog pre- vented its ...
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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