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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... guns in embrasure and one en bar- bette . It is built on a shoal , its foundations being formed by stones à perdue . It is situated on the south side of the channel , nearly equidistant from Sullivan's and Morris Islands , and is 33 ...
... guns in embrasure and one en bar- bette . It is built on a shoal , its foundations being formed by stones à perdue . It is situated on the south side of the channel , nearly equidistant from Sullivan's and Morris Islands , and is 33 ...
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... guns and guns of position . Engineer troops .. Pieces of field artillery completely equipped and mounted . Pieces of field artillery without horses and but partially manned . 10,000 850 600 28 8 Parrott rifled guns of 8 inches diameter ...
... guns and guns of position . Engineer troops .. Pieces of field artillery completely equipped and mounted . Pieces of field artillery without horses and but partially manned . 10,000 850 600 28 8 Parrott rifled guns of 8 inches diameter ...
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... guns of various calibers , and that these were so arranged in batteries of single pieces that they each covered with their fire not only the north end of Folly Island , held by our advanced pickets , and the main ship - channel abreast ...
... guns of various calibers , and that these were so arranged in batteries of single pieces that they each covered with their fire not only the north end of Folly Island , held by our advanced pickets , and the main ship - channel abreast ...
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... guns could deliver , and had delivered , over both Wagner and Gregg , an accurate and destructive fire . 97. The early elimination of Fort Sumter from the contest , consid- ered simply as auxiliary to the reduction of Fort Wagner , was ...
... guns could deliver , and had delivered , over both Wagner and Gregg , an accurate and destructive fire . 97. The early elimination of Fort Sumter from the contest , consid- ered simply as auxiliary to the reduction of Fort Wagner , was ...
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... guns against Fort Sumter as the place would accommodate , provided it should be found practicable to establish them there , under the concentrated fire to which the position was exposed , orders were issued to give to its defensive ar ...
... guns against Fort Sumter as the place would accommodate , provided it should be found practicable to establish them there , under the concentrated fire to which the position was exposed , orders were issued to give to its defensive ar ...
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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