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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... Private Emerson have elicited the praise of the general officers of the trenches on many occasions by their fearlessness . Corporal Bender had the flag shot from his hands while signaling at the advance batteries . Corporal Bender and ...
... Private Emerson have elicited the praise of the general officers of the trenches on many occasions by their fearlessness . Corporal Bender had the flag shot from his hands while signaling at the advance batteries . Corporal Bender and ...
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... private was killed to - day at Fort Johnson by a Parrott shell from one of the enemy's batteries . In pursuance of orders from these headquarters , Major Stephen Elliott [ jr . ] assumed_command to - day of Fort Sumter , relieving Col ...
... private was killed to - day at Fort Johnson by a Parrott shell from one of the enemy's batteries . In pursuance of orders from these headquarters , Major Stephen Elliott [ jr . ] assumed_command to - day of Fort Sumter , relieving Col ...
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... private slightly wounded by fragment of a shell , and 1 negro , whose left arm was broken with shell so as to render amputation necessary . The enemy's fire against Sumter , Johnson , and Simkins is increas- ing , and is altogether from ...
... private slightly wounded by fragment of a shell , and 1 negro , whose left arm was broken with shell so as to render amputation necessary . The enemy's fire against Sumter , Johnson , and Simkins is increas- ing , and is altogether from ...
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... private affairs . In accordance with orders from the War Department , Anderson's brigade left this morning en route for General Bragg's army . Pursuant to instructions from department headquarters , General Ripley issued to - day an ...
... private affairs . In accordance with orders from the War Department , Anderson's brigade left this morning en route for General Bragg's army . Pursuant to instructions from department headquarters , General Ripley issued to - day an ...
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... private of Company E , Second South Carolina Artillery , severely wounded at Fort Johnson . * ] Dispatches from the Stono state that 87 men with knapsacks crossed Stevens ' Bridge and proceeded toward Dixon's Ísland . The enemy's ...
... private of Company E , Second South Carolina Artillery , severely wounded at Fort Johnson . * ] Dispatches from the Stono state that 87 men with knapsacks crossed Stevens ' Bridge and proceeded toward Dixon's Ísland . The enemy's ...
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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