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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... front of over three times the average development that could , by taking advantage of all the firm ground , be given to the head of our approaches , while as we neared the work this ratio reached as high as ten to one . Its faces were ...
... front of over three times the average development that could , by taking advantage of all the firm ground , be given to the head of our approaches , while as we neared the work this ratio reached as high as ten to one . Its faces were ...
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... front and one flank , it was greatly feared that we would not only lose many valuable lives , but that the gun carriages as well as the sling - carts , gins , and other ap- pliances necessary for such work would be destroyed by the ...
... front and one flank , it was greatly feared that we would not only lose many valuable lives , but that the gun carriages as well as the sling - carts , gins , and other ap- pliances necessary for such work would be destroyed by the ...
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... front of Wagner , there was a ridge affording good cover , from which we received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in the fire directed upon it from our ...
... front of Wagner , there was a ridge affording good cover , from which we received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in the fire directed upon it from our ...
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... front , and placed in battery ; the capacity of the fifth parallel and the advanced trenches for sharpshooters was enlarged and improved ; the rifled guns in the left breaching batteries were trained upon the fort and prepared for ...
... front , and placed in battery ; the capacity of the fifth parallel and the advanced trenches for sharpshooters was enlarged and improved ; the rifled guns in the left breaching batteries were trained upon the fort and prepared for ...
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... front and the bomb - proof and trav- erses , spike the guns , and seize and hold the sally - port . Second . A column of one brigade drawn up right in front in the trenches , in rear of the first column , will debouch upon the beach by ...
... front and the bomb - proof and trav- erses , spike the guns , and seize and hold the sally - port . Second . A column of one brigade drawn up right in front in the trenches , in rear of the first column , will debouch upon the beach by ...
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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