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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... point , exposed to full view and constant artillery fire , disembark and form upon an open beach in the presence of the enemy , and finally advance to the attack under the combined fire of artillery and small - arms . 51. Yet these were ...
... point , exposed to full view and constant artillery fire , disembark and form upon an open beach in the presence of the enemy , and finally advance to the attack under the combined fire of artillery and small - arms . 51. Yet these were ...
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... Point , the northern extremity , is exactly 6,616 yards distant from the nearest point of the city , and 2,700 yards dis- tant by the shortest line from Fort Moultrie , on Sullivan's Island . Fort Sumter is 1,390 yards distant from ...
... Point , the northern extremity , is exactly 6,616 yards distant from the nearest point of the city , and 2,700 yards dis- tant by the shortest line from Fort Moultrie , on Sullivan's Island . Fort Sumter is 1,390 yards distant from ...
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... point and ex- tended some distance into the marsh . The end of this ridge on the left rested boldly on Vincent's Creek . 104. It being the intention to place , directly in the rear of the sec- ond parallel , as many breaching guns ...
... point and ex- tended some distance into the marsh . The end of this ridge on the left rested boldly on Vincent's Creek . 104. It being the intention to place , directly in the rear of the sec- ond parallel , as many breaching guns ...
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... point in particular , about 200 yards in front of Wagner , there was a ridge affording good cover , from which we received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in ...
... point in particular , about 200 yards in front of Wagner , there was a ridge affording good cover , from which we received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in ...
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... points designated by myself . This order was issued on the 6th of October , and on the following day I went , accompanied ... point , returned to Folly Island on the afternoon of the 9th . Colonel Serrell detailed three parties of men to ...
... points designated by myself . This order was issued on the 6th of October , and on the following day I went , accompanied ... point , returned to Folly Island on the afternoon of the 9th . Colonel Serrell detailed three parties of men to ...
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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