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 74
... damage . The enemy worked hard on his Morris Island batteries , making considerable progress . The fire , however , from Fort Sumter and Batteries Wagner and Gregg ap- peared to harass him considerably . The impossibility of expelling ...
... damage . The enemy worked hard on his Morris Island batteries , making considerable progress . The fire , however , from Fort Sumter and Batteries Wagner and Gregg ap- peared to harass him considerably . The impossibility of expelling ...
Page 78
... damages . The enemy were busy erecting bat- teries and throwing up traverses to protect them from the fire of the James ... damage to the work . The guns on the sea face unserviceable ; on the land front in good order . The enemy's stock ...
... damages . The enemy were busy erecting bat- teries and throwing up traverses to protect them from the fire of the James ... damage to the work . The guns on the sea face unserviceable ; on the land front in good order . The enemy's stock ...
Page 79
... damages of the day . Every night preparations will be on hand for removing troops from Morris Island in case of need ... damage was done . Two men were killed and 5 wounded . My telegraphic dispatch on the evening of the 28th was : Many ...
... damages of the day . Every night preparations will be on hand for removing troops from Morris Island in case of need ... damage was done . Two men were killed and 5 wounded . My telegraphic dispatch on the evening of the 28th was : Many ...
Page 80
... damage of consequence done to the works . Brigadier - General Ripley was instructed to transport as early as possible one of the 10 - inch columbiads lately arrived from Richmond to Battery Wagner , which was accomplished on the night ...
... damage of consequence done to the works . Brigadier - General Ripley was instructed to transport as early as possible one of the 10 - inch columbiads lately arrived from Richmond to Battery Wagner , which was accomplished on the night ...
Page 83
... damage was done . farthest penetration into the brick work was about 4 feet . The On the 14th , the land batteries opened on Fort Sumter , firing three shots ; two struck . About 11 a . m . the wooden gunboats shelled the fort at long ...
... damage was done . farthest penetration into the brick work was about 4 feet . The On the 14th , the land batteries opened on Fort Sumter , firing three shots ; two struck . About 11 a . m . the wooden gunboats shelled the fort at long ...
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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