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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... breaching batteries against that work , and was valueless to the enemy if it failed to accomplish that end . To save valuable time , it was determined to attempt the demolition of Sumter from ground already in our possession , so that ...
... breaching batteries against that work , and was valueless to the enemy if it failed to accomplish that end . To save valuable time , it was determined to attempt the demolition of Sumter from ground already in our possession , so that ...
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... breaching guns in position . 98. At this stage of the operations it became necessasy to subdivide the engineering operations , civil and military , and assign to each assistant engineer a definite and specified field of labor . 99. Col ...
... breaching guns in position . 98. At this stage of the operations it became necessasy to subdivide the engineering operations , civil and military , and assign to each assistant engineer a definite and specified field of labor . 99. Col ...
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... breaching guns against Fort Sumter as the place would accommodate , provided it should be found practicable to establish them there , under the concentrated fire to which the position was exposed , orders were issued to give to its ...
... breaching guns against Fort Sumter as the place would accommodate , provided it should be found practicable to establish them there , under the concentrated fire to which the position was exposed , orders were issued to give to its ...
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... breaching battery in the first parallel , to be armed with two 200 - pounder Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder Whitworth rifles . The use of these guns and the service of a detach- ment of men to man them had been kindly offered by ...
... breaching battery in the first parallel , to be armed with two 200 - pounder Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder Whitworth rifles . The use of these guns and the service of a detach- ment of men to man them had been kindly offered by ...
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... breaching batteries in the second parallel , the following order was issued : 130 . SPECIAL ORDERS , HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH , In the Field , Morris Island , S. C. , August 16 , 1863 . I. All the breaching batteries ...
... breaching batteries in the second parallel , the following order was issued : 130 . SPECIAL ORDERS , HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH , In the Field , Morris Island , S. C. , August 16 , 1863 . I. All the breaching batteries ...
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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