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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... charged with the construction of a depot powder magazine , and other duties . Lieutenant [ Peter S. ] Michie had charge on the left . First Parallel . 100. On July 18 , immediately after our second repulse at Fort Wagner , orders were ...
... charged with the construction of a depot powder magazine , and other duties . Lieutenant [ Peter S. ] Michie had charge on the left . First Parallel . 100. On July 18 , immediately after our second repulse at Fort Wagner , orders were ...
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... Charges and weights of projectiles . Ranges . Charge . Weight of projectiles . Pounds . 1 94 to 10 pounds . 2 31 81 10 16 184 to 19 pounds . About 29 pounds . Do. 80 pounds generally . 150 pounds generally . 25 250 pounds generally ...
... Charges and weights of projectiles . Ranges . Charge . Weight of projectiles . Pounds . 1 94 to 10 pounds . 2 31 81 10 16 184 to 19 pounds . About 29 pounds . Do. 80 pounds generally . 150 pounds generally . 25 250 pounds generally ...
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... Charge . Range . 300 - pounder 200 - pounder 100 - pounder 300 - pounder 200 - pounder 100 - pounder Degrees . Minutes . Pounds . Yards . 13 30 26 4,290 . 11 47 16 4,273 13 30 10 4,272 5 12 251 1,950 4 12 16 1,750 15 10 1,750 158. The ...
... Charge . Range . 300 - pounder 200 - pounder 100 - pounder 300 - pounder 200 - pounder 100 - pounder Degrees . Minutes . Pounds . Yards . 13 30 26 4,290 . 11 47 16 4,273 13 30 10 4,272 5 12 251 1,950 4 12 16 1,750 15 10 1,750 158. The ...
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... Charge . Elevation . Remarks . 10 18 Per . 32 ° Per . 35 ° 10 Per . 35 ° 31 Per . 30 ° Well . Burst in gun . Do. Well . 16 Per . 12 " 10 " 45 ° 10 " 45 ° 5 " 1 .... do . .do 3 5 ° do . .do ∞ 5 ° 1 do . Filled by Mr. Short and covered ...
... Charge . Elevation . Remarks . 10 18 Per . 32 ° Per . 35 ° 10 Per . 35 ° 31 Per . 30 ° Well . Burst in gun . Do. Well . 16 Per . 12 " 10 " 45 ° 10 " 45 ° 5 " 1 .... do . .do 3 5 ° do . .do ∞ 5 ° 1 do . Filled by Mr. Short and covered ...
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... charges at once . On the 10th , he was released by Colonel Barton without any charges being preferred . I consider it a gratuitous indignity to the signal service , that the commandant of a remote post should interfere with the working ...
... charges at once . On the 10th , he was released by Colonel Barton without any charges being preferred . I consider it a gratuitous indignity to the signal service , that the commandant of a remote post should interfere with the working ...
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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