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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... mounting one tier of guns en barbette . 5. Third . Fort Johnson , located on James Island , due west from Fort Sumter ... mounted upon the wharves of the city , and a number of iron - clad rams were constructed . 13. A work called Fort ...
... mounting one tier of guns en barbette . 5. Third . Fort Johnson , located on James Island , due west from Fort Sumter ... mounted upon the wharves of the city , and a number of iron - clad rams were constructed . 13. A work called Fort ...
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... mounted several heavy guns on the south end of the island , to control the waters of Stono Inlet and the water approaches from James Island . A road had also been opened , practicable for infantry and artillery , by means of which a ...
... mounted several heavy guns on the south end of the island , to control the waters of Stono Inlet and the water approaches from James Island . A road had also been opened , practicable for infantry and artillery , by means of which a ...
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... mounted . Pieces of field artillery without horses and but partially manned . 10,000 850 600 28 8 Parrott rifled guns of 8 inches diameter of bore , known as 200 - pounders . Parrott rifled guns of 6.4 inches diameter of bore , known as ...
... mounted . Pieces of field artillery without horses and but partially manned . 10,000 850 600 28 8 Parrott rifled guns of 8 inches diameter of bore , known as 200 - pounders . Parrott rifled guns of 6.4 inches diameter of bore , known as ...
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... mounted ten or twelve guns ; that four or five of them were on the south front , to protect the land approach , and that two , or perhaps three , heavy guns covered the main channel abreast of the island . Battery Gregg , on Cumming's ...
... mounted ten or twelve guns ; that four or five of them were on the south front , to protect the land approach , and that two , or perhaps three , heavy guns covered the main channel abreast of the island . Battery Gregg , on Cumming's ...
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... mounted in other parts of the harbor . The period during which the weakness of the enemy's interior defenses was most palpably appar- ent was during the ten days subsequent to the 23d of August . 135. Meanwhile , on the night of August ...
... mounted in other parts of the harbor . The period during which the weakness of the enemy's interior defenses was most palpably appar- ent was during the ten days subsequent to the 23d of August . 135. Meanwhile , on the night of August ...
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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