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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... directed breaching batteries against Fort Sumter to be established.in the second parallel . 107. Major Brooks , assistant engineer , upon whom this duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the ...
... directed breaching batteries against Fort Sumter to be established.in the second parallel . 107. Major Brooks , assistant engineer , upon whom this duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the ...
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... directed , and the mortars against Fort Wagner , exploding the shell just over the fort . Fifth . The Naval Battery , Commander F. A. Parker , U. S. Navy , commanding , comprising two 8 - inch Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder ...
... directed , and the mortars against Fort Wagner , exploding the shell just over the fort . Fifth . The Naval Battery , Commander F. A. Parker , U. S. Navy , commanding , comprising two 8 - inch Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder ...
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... directed upon it from our batteries and the gunboats . The firing from the distant James Island batteries was steady and accurate . One attempt on the 21st to obtain possession of the ridge with in- fantry having failed , it was ...
... directed upon it from our batteries and the gunboats . The firing from the distant James Island batteries was steady and accurate . One attempt on the 21st to obtain possession of the ridge with in- fantry having failed , it was ...
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... directed to open signal communication with Land's End , a new post established on Saint Helena Island . I have accordingly had a station erected there , at a point from which communication can be had with Hilton Head and with Beaufort ...
... directed to open signal communication with Land's End , a new post established on Saint Helena Island . I have accordingly had a station erected there , at a point from which communication can be had with Hilton Head and with Beaufort ...
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... directed me to send another officer there , and I sent Lieutenant Bruyn . On the 8th , no action having been had in the matter , I addressed a second com- munication to Colonel Halpine , asking that Colonel Barton might be directed to ...
... directed me to send another officer there , and I sent Lieutenant Bruyn . On the 8th , no action having been had in the matter , I addressed a second com- munication to Colonel Halpine , asking that Colonel Barton might be directed to ...
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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