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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... fleet by a heavy artillery fire when it was ready to move in . 38. Fourth . The monitors and iron - clads to enter , remove the channel obstructions , run by the batteries on James and Sullivan's Islands , and reach the city . 39. No ...
... fleet by a heavy artillery fire when it was ready to move in . 38. Fourth . The monitors and iron - clads to enter , remove the channel obstructions , run by the batteries on James and Sullivan's Islands , and reach the city . 39. No ...
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... fleet . They were simple out- posts of Fort Sumter . Fort Wagner was specially designed to pre- vent the erection of breaching batteries against that work , and was valueless to the enemy if it failed to accomplish that end . To save ...
... fleet . They were simple out- posts of Fort Sumter . Fort Wagner was specially designed to pre- vent the erection of breaching batteries against that work , and was valueless to the enemy if it failed to accomplish that end . To save ...
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... fleet were not even discussed among military and naval men . Fort Sumter , in April , 1863 , repulsed in forty minutes Admiral DuPont's gallant attack with nine iron - clads , eight of which were of the most formidable class , and yet ...
... fleet were not even discussed among military and naval men . Fort Sumter , in April , 1863 , repulsed in forty minutes Admiral DuPont's gallant attack with nine iron - clads , eight of which were of the most formidable class , and yet ...
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... fleet in its circuits within the harbor poured successively an overwhelming and concentric fire , and drove the enemy from them by sheer weight of metal , before the works themselves had sustained any material injury . There were no ...
... fleet in its circuits within the harbor poured successively an overwhelming and concentric fire , and drove the enemy from them by sheer weight of metal , before the works themselves had sustained any material injury . There were no ...
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... appliance known to military science , and has defied the assaults of the most powerful and gallant fleet the world ever saw . But it has yielded to your courage and patient labor . Its walls CHAP . XL ] 39 GENERAL REPORTS .
... appliance known to military science , and has defied the assaults of the most powerful and gallant fleet the world ever saw . But it has yielded to your courage and patient labor . Its walls CHAP . XL ] 39 GENERAL REPORTS .
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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