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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... Light- House Inlet to Saint Augustine , a distance of nearly 250 miles . The positions actually occupied by our troops were : Folly Island , Sea- brook Island on the North Edisto , Saint Helena Island , Port Royal Island , Hilton Head ...
... Light- House Inlet to Saint Augustine , a distance of nearly 250 miles . The positions actually occupied by our troops were : Folly Island , Sea- brook Island on the North Edisto , Saint Helena Island , Port Royal Island , Hilton Head ...
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... Light - House Inlet , which separates the two islands . 53. Three methods of conducting the assault suggested themselves . First . To place the men in small boats in Stono River , tow them out to sea , and land them in the surf at ...
... Light - House Inlet , which separates the two islands . 53. Three methods of conducting the assault suggested themselves . First . To place the men in small boats in Stono River , tow them out to sea , and land them in the surf at ...
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... Light - House Inlet . A small detachment from this force will enter the creek to the west of Morris Island , and will land just north of the old light - house , seize the batteries there , and , if possible , turn them upon the enemy's ...
... Light - House Inlet . A small detachment from this force will enter the creek to the west of Morris Island , and will land just north of the old light - house , seize the batteries there , and , if possible , turn them upon the enemy's ...
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... Light- House Inlet with Folly Island Creek , to allow the boats to pass through . 63. The batteries on the north end of Folly Island were also ordered to be unmasked , by opening out the embrasures and cutting away the brush - wood in ...
... Light- House Inlet with Folly Island Creek , to allow the boats to pass through . 63. The batteries on the north end of Folly Island were also ordered to be unmasked , by opening out the embrasures and cutting away the brush - wood in ...
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... light guns in the parallel . On the right the parallel itself was extended by a defensive barricade to low - water mark , terminating at that . point in a strong crib work on which was placed three Requa batteries and two field ...
... light guns in the parallel . On the right the parallel itself was extended by a defensive barricade to low - water mark , terminating at that . point in a strong crib work on which was placed three Requa batteries and two field ...
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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