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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Page 93
... Last night our sappers crowned the crest of the counter - scarp of Fort Wagner on its sea front , masking all its guns , and an order was issued to carry the place by assault at 9 o'clock this morning , that being the hour of low tide ...
... Last night our sappers crowned the crest of the counter - scarp of Fort Wagner on its sea front , masking all its guns , and an order was issued to carry the place by assault at 9 o'clock this morning , that being the hour of low tide ...
Page 104
... night , it is impossible to do so without a heavy loss of men . In the effort last night to repair damages , the commanding officer of the fort reports a loss in killed and wounded of 60 or 80 men of the working party alone . Without ...
... night , it is impossible to do so without a heavy loss of men . In the effort last night to repair damages , the commanding officer of the fort reports a loss in killed and wounded of 60 or 80 men of the working party alone . Without ...
Page 117
... last night at about 11.40 , have just withdrawn , and our Sullivan's Island batteries , Wagner and Gregg , have ceased firing . The monitors were seen to have been struck many times . 6 a . m . In the last twenty - four hours , 982 ...
... last night at about 11.40 , have just withdrawn , and our Sullivan's Island batteries , Wagner and Gregg , have ceased firing . The monitors were seen to have been struck many times . 6 a . m . In the last twenty - four hours , 982 ...
Page 118
... night . Lieutenant [ John ] Johnson , engineer officer , was relieved from duty in consequence of the aggravated ... last night , excepting Wagner . In the past twelve hours , our batteries have fired 172 shots and the enemy 157 . 8. a ...
... night . Lieutenant [ John ] Johnson , engineer officer , was relieved from duty in consequence of the aggravated ... last night , excepting Wagner . In the past twelve hours , our batteries have fired 172 shots and the enemy 157 . 8. a ...
Page 120
... night , and want the sailors again early . Will you please send in two or three monitors just at dusk , to open fire on Moultrie as a diversion ? The last time they were in they stopped re - enforcements , and may do so to - night . Don ...
... night , and want the sailors again early . Will you please send in two or three monitors just at dusk , to open fire on Moultrie as a diversion ? The last time they were in they stopped re - enforcements , and may do so to - night . Don ...
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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