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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... land force prepared to assist the attack and to occupy any work reduced by the navy . Accordingly , General Fos- ter , with a considerable force and a large siege equipage , which had been prepared for another purpose , was sent to ...
... land force prepared to assist the attack and to occupy any work reduced by the navy . Accordingly , General Fos- ter , with a considerable force and a large siege equipage , which had been prepared for another purpose , was sent to ...
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United States. War Department. the land forces . A siege of Charleston and its defenses by land had never been contemplated , and therefore was no part of the plan . It is now represented by the Navy Department that a second attack upon ...
United States. War Department. the land forces . A siege of Charleston and its defenses by land had never been contemplated , and therefore was no part of the plan . It is now represented by the Navy Department that a second attack upon ...
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... land adjacent to it toward the interior by soft and impracticable marshes , varying in width from 1 to 3 miles . These marshes are submerged by spring tides , and are traversed by numerous streams , that are generally very narrow , deep ...
... land adjacent to it toward the interior by soft and impracticable marshes , varying in width from 1 to 3 miles . These marshes are submerged by spring tides , and are traversed by numerous streams , that are generally very narrow , deep ...
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... land , extending from Wando River to Copahee Sound , to guard the approach from Bull's Bay . 18. The strength of the James Island works was tested by a bold but unsuccessful attack upon them by our forces , under Brigadier- General ...
... land , extending from Wando River to Copahee Sound , to guard the approach from Bull's Bay . 18. The strength of the James Island works was tested by a bold but unsuccessful attack upon them by our forces , under Brigadier- General ...
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... land forces , numbering scarcely 11,000 men of all arms available for offensive operations , could not , unless largely re - en- forced , take the lead in any operations against the interior defenses of Charleston that would involve ...
... land forces , numbering scarcely 11,000 men of all arms available for offensive operations , could not , unless largely re - en- forced , take the lead in any operations against the interior defenses of Charleston that would involve ...
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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