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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... mortar siege I. 3 - inch Wiard rifled field K. 8 - inch mortar siege . ( See Plate II . * ) No. of guns . 2 2446Q CO∞ COLO 6 8 4 * Reference is to " Map of siege operations against the defenses of Charleston Harbor , 1863 , showing ...
... mortar siege I. 3 - inch Wiard rifled field K. 8 - inch mortar siege . ( See Plate II . * ) No. of guns . 2 2446Q CO∞ COLO 6 8 4 * Reference is to " Map of siege operations against the defenses of Charleston Harbor , 1863 , showing ...
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... mortars . The guns will operate against Battery Gregg with shot and shell , unless otherwise directed , and the mortars against Fort Wagner , exploding the shell just over the fort . Fifth . The Naval Battery , Commander F. A. Parker ...
... mortars . The guns will operate against Battery Gregg with shot and shell , unless otherwise directed , and the mortars against Fort Wagner , exploding the shell just over the fort . Fifth . The Naval Battery , Commander F. A. Parker ...
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... mortars ( one 8 - inch and one 10 - inch ) . These , when earnestly served , caused the most serious delay in the progress of our works , and on one occasion suspended it entirely . 172. The Coehorn mortar is a most valuable weapon in ...
... mortars ( one 8 - inch and one 10 - inch ) . These , when earnestly served , caused the most serious delay in the progress of our works , and on one occasion suspended it entirely . 172. The Coehorn mortar is a most valuable weapon in ...
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... mortar vessels shelled Batteries Wagner and Gregg , but with little effect and slight casualties . Four moni- tors only were with the fleet ; the fifth was seen going to the south without a smoke - stack on the evening of the 12th ...
... mortar vessels shelled Batteries Wagner and Gregg , but with little effect and slight casualties . Four moni- tors only were with the fleet ; the fifth was seen going to the south without a smoke - stack on the evening of the 12th ...
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... mortar batteries at Fort Johnson to be converted into gun batteries for one heavy rifled gun or 10 - inch columbiad each ; to strengthen the gorge wall of Fort Sumter by means of wet cotton bales , filled in between with sand , and kept ...
... mortar batteries at Fort Johnson to be converted into gun batteries for one heavy rifled gun or 10 - inch columbiad each ; to strengthen the gorge wall of Fort Sumter by means of wet cotton bales , filled in between with sand , and kept ...
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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