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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... feet above ordinary high - water level , while just south of Wagner the width is reduced to 25 yards and the depth to 2 feet . At this point the sea frequently breaks entirely over the island during the spring tides . On the east side ...
... feet above ordinary high - water level , while just south of Wagner the width is reduced to 25 yards and the depth to 2 feet . At this point the sea frequently breaks entirely over the island during the spring tides . On the east side ...
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... feet in many places , and washed down the parapets . At the second parallel the Surf Battery had barely escaped entire destruction , about one - third of it having been carried away by the sea . Its armanent had been temporarily removed ...
... feet in many places , and washed down the parapets . At the second parallel the Surf Battery had barely escaped entire destruction , about one - third of it having been carried away by the sea . Its armanent had been temporarily removed ...
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... feet to 1 inch . CEVEL OF PARADE Fig . 4 . PLATFORM CROSS SECTION ON N. & E. FACES , E -日- E A Fig . 1 . Ist TIER CASEMATES . The Embrasures of this Tier werė not finished by us - a large opening ( temporarily filled full of bricks ) ...
... feet to 1 inch . CEVEL OF PARADE Fig . 4 . PLATFORM CROSS SECTION ON N. & E. FACES , E -日- E A Fig . 1 . Ist TIER CASEMATES . The Embrasures of this Tier werė not finished by us - a large opening ( temporarily filled full of bricks ) ...
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... the " Plan of a portion of the siege operations against the defenses of Charleston Harbor prior to the capture of Fort Wagner , " & c . , which is to appear in Atlas . 15 to 20 feet square , is by no means CHAP . XL . ] 27 GENERAL REPORTS .
... the " Plan of a portion of the siege operations against the defenses of Charleston Harbor prior to the capture of Fort Wagner , " & c . , which is to appear in Atlas . 15 to 20 feet square , is by no means CHAP . XL . ] 27 GENERAL REPORTS .
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United States. War Department. 15 to 20 feet square , is by no means commensurate with the expend- iture of ammunition involved . [ 146. ] The section , Plate V , * is taken along the line where this two days ' firing upon the bomb ...
United States. War Department. 15 to 20 feet square , is by no means commensurate with the expend- iture of ammunition involved . [ 146. ] The section , Plate V , * is taken along the line where this two days ' firing upon the bomb ...
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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