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 37
... enemy from them by sheer weight of metal , before the works themselves had sustained any material injury . There were no bomb - proof shelters for the men in either work . Had the enemy's artillery been distributed along the opposite ...
... enemy from them by sheer weight of metal , before the works themselves had sustained any material injury . There were no bomb - proof shelters for the men in either work . Had the enemy's artillery been distributed along the opposite ...
Page 61
... enemy's pickets , outposts , and advanced lines , to carry the first or Craig's Hill battery , and to give time , also , for the whole column , before daylight , to push beyond the level , open , and exposed space between Battery Wagner ...
... enemy's pickets , outposts , and advanced lines , to carry the first or Craig's Hill battery , and to give time , also , for the whole column , before daylight , to push beyond the level , open , and exposed space between Battery Wagner ...
Page 62
... enemy's force on the island , and in the consequent paralysis of the expedition until additional force could be procured , thus giving us time to throw up the works contemplated before the enemy took possession of that part of the ...
... enemy's force on the island , and in the consequent paralysis of the expedition until additional force could be procured , thus giving us time to throw up the works contemplated before the enemy took possession of that part of the ...
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... Enemy's fleet , reported at Hilton Head and Port Royal yesterday , is 4 steam fri- gates , 5 wooden gunboats , 6 ... enemy , as well as opening even Charleston and Augusta and Columbia Railroads to attack at Branchville , leaving here ...
... Enemy's fleet , reported at Hilton Head and Port Royal yesterday , is 4 steam fri- gates , 5 wooden gunboats , 6 ... enemy , as well as opening even Charleston and Augusta and Columbia Railroads to attack at Branchville , leaving here ...
Page 68
... enemy be to send his re - enforcements to the Mississippi , you will go on and co - operate with General Johnston in that quarter . This I answered by a telegram on the 13th of same month , as follows : Enemy's iron - clads and forces ...
... enemy be to send his re - enforcements to the Mississippi , you will go on and co - operate with General Johnston in that quarter . This I answered by a telegram on the 13th of same month , as follows : Enemy's iron - clads and forces ...
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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