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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Page 47
... arrival at Morris Island , and Lieutenant Bruyn arrived from Edisto , in compliance with orders . I sent Lieu- tenant Brodie to Hilton Head ( being unwell ) , to relieve Lieutenant Stroop , whom I ordered to report here for duty . On ...
... arrival at Morris Island , and Lieutenant Bruyn arrived from Edisto , in compliance with orders . I sent Lieu- tenant Brodie to Hilton Head ( being unwell ) , to relieve Lieutenant Stroop , whom I ordered to report here for duty . On ...
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... arriving there at midnight . I immediately crossed to Lady's Island , and procured transportation , and at daylight we ... arrived at Otter Island in the morning , and thence , having decided on the location of the tower at that point ...
... arriving there at midnight . I immediately crossed to Lady's Island , and procured transportation , and at daylight we ... arrived at Otter Island in the morning , and thence , having decided on the location of the tower at that point ...
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... arrived in Charleston on September 13 , 1862 , and assumed com- mand on the 24th . In the interval I was engaged in ascertaining the plans and measures taken by Major - General Pemberton ( my prede- * See Confederate Correspondence ...
... arrived in Charleston on September 13 , 1862 , and assumed com- mand on the 24th . In the interval I was engaged in ascertaining the plans and measures taken by Major - General Pemberton ( my prede- * See Confederate Correspondence ...
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... arrived too late to render mate- rial assistance on the morning of July 10. The long - protracted defense of Battery Wagner must not be compared with the evacua- tion of the south end of Morris Island by way of throwing discredit on the ...
... arrived too late to render mate- rial assistance on the morning of July 10. The long - protracted defense of Battery Wagner must not be compared with the evacua- tion of the south end of Morris Island by way of throwing discredit on the ...
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... arrived from Wilmington about the same time , in consequence of my urgent call for re - enforcements . The enemy was occupied during the day in erecting works on the middle of Morris Island , while five monitors and three wooden gun ...
... arrived from Wilmington about the same time , in consequence of my urgent call for re - enforcements . The enemy was occupied during the day in erecting works on the middle of Morris Island , while five monitors and three wooden gun ...
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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