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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... duty ; but not proving acceptable to the commanding general of the department , he was permitted to return to his command in North Carolina , leaving his troops and siege preparations in the Department of the South . The naval attack on ...
... duty ; but not proving acceptable to the commanding general of the department , he was permitted to return to his command in North Carolina , leaving his troops and siege preparations in the Department of the South . The naval attack on ...
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... defenses of Charleston Harbor , 1863 , showing batter es covering the descent upon Morris Island , July 10 , " & c . It is to appear in Atlas . 56. The duty of constructing these batteries was assigned to CHAP . XL ] 9 GENERAL REPORTS .
... defenses of Charleston Harbor , 1863 , showing batter es covering the descent upon Morris Island , July 10 , " & c . It is to appear in Atlas . 56. The duty of constructing these batteries was assigned to CHAP . XL ] 9 GENERAL REPORTS .
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... duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the impracticability of such an undertaking , under the heavy , direct , and flank fire to which the fatigue parties would be exposed , nevertheless entered ...
... duty de- volved , although entertaining and expressing pretty decided views of the impracticability of such an undertaking , under the heavy , direct , and flank fire to which the fatigue parties would be exposed , nevertheless entered ...
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... duty defiantly mounted the parapets of their works to while away their leisure time , or groping their way forward among the torpedoes with a skill which the most bitter ex- perience only could have conferred , approached the ditch ...
... duty defiantly mounted the parapets of their works to while away their leisure time , or groping their way forward among the torpedoes with a skill which the most bitter ex- perience only could have conferred , approached the ditch ...
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... duty , and upon my request has been by the general com- manding temporarily suspended from signal duty pending action upon his application . Two officers , Lieutenants [ Milton M. ] Fenner and [ William ] Rey- nolds , have returned from ...
... duty , and upon my request has been by the general com- manding temporarily suspended from signal duty pending action upon his application . Two officers , Lieutenants [ Milton M. ] Fenner and [ William ] Rey- nolds , have returned from ...
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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