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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... immediately followed by the Confederate accounts . The correspond- ence , & c . , not embraced in the " reports " proper will follow ( first Union and next Confederate ) in chronological order . The 2d Series will contain the ...
... immediately followed by the Confederate accounts . The correspond- ence , & c . , not embraced in the " reports " proper will follow ( first Union and next Confederate ) in chronological order . The 2d Series will contain the ...
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... immediately after break of day to - morrow . The firing must be executed with great care and deliberation , the object of the rifled guns being principally to dismount the enemy's guns . They will not expend ammunition when their view ...
... immediately after break of day to - morrow . The firing must be executed with great care and deliberation , the object of the rifled guns being principally to dismount the enemy's guns . They will not expend ammunition when their view ...
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... immediately to report to Colonel Barton , command- ing at Fort Pulaski , for duty in the field . I sent Lieutenants [ Town- send L. ] Hatfield , Hamner , Weber , and [ Jonathan W. ] Davis . They returned on the afternoon of the 4th ...
... immediately to report to Colonel Barton , command- ing at Fort Pulaski , for duty in the field . I sent Lieutenants [ Town- send L. ] Hatfield , Hamner , Weber , and [ Jonathan W. ] Davis . They returned on the afternoon of the 4th ...
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... immediately on their landing communication was opened with Morris Island , up to the advanced line of rifle - pits , under the guns of Fort Wagner . Several of our officers and men have distinguished themselves by the coolness and ...
... immediately on their landing communication was opened with Morris Island , up to the advanced line of rifle - pits , under the guns of Fort Wagner . Several of our officers and men have distinguished themselves by the coolness and ...
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United States. War Department. movements , and immediately upon the conclusion of our operations will make a detailed report , with maps , & c . I have the honor to be , respectfully , your obedient servant , FRANKLIN E. TOWN , First ...
United States. War Department. movements , and immediately upon the conclusion of our operations will make a detailed report , with maps , & c . I have the honor to be , respectfully , your obedient servant , FRANKLIN E. TOWN , First ...
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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