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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... parallel , the guns in Wagner , Gregg , Sumter , and also those on James and Sulli- van's Islands opened upon it rapidly and simultaneously , and when it approached so near the work that the firing from the navy and that of our own ...
... parallel , the guns in Wagner , Gregg , Sumter , and also those on James and Sulli- van's Islands opened upon it rapidly and simultaneously , and when it approached so near the work that the firing from the navy and that of our own ...
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... Parallel . 100. On July 18 , immediately after our second repulse at Fort Wagner , orders were given to convert the position occupied by our right batteries on the 18th of July , and named Battery Reynolds , into a strong defensive line ...
... Parallel . 100. On July 18 , immediately after our second repulse at Fort Wagner , orders were given to convert the position occupied by our right batteries on the 18th of July , and named Battery Reynolds , into a strong defensive line ...
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... Parallel . : 103. July 23. On the night of the 23d the " second parallel " was established by the flying sap , about 600 yards in advance of the first , upon a line running diagonally across the island , in a direction ap- proximately ...
... Parallel . : 103. July 23. On the night of the 23d the " second parallel " was established by the flying sap , about 600 yards in advance of the first , upon a line running diagonally across the island , in a direction ap- proximately ...
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... parallel , to be armed with two 200 - pounder Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder Whitworth rifles . The use of these guns and the service of a detach- ment of men to man them had been kindly offered by Admiral Dahl- gren . The battery ...
... parallel , to be armed with two 200 - pounder Parrott rifles and two 80 - pounder Whitworth rifles . The use of these guns and the service of a detach- ment of men to man them had been kindly offered by Admiral Dahl- gren . The battery ...
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... parallel with the flying sap , about 330 yards in advance of the right of the second parallel , and to commence the approaches between the two parallels by the same method . 124. From this period forward the fire from James Island , Wag ...
... parallel with the flying sap , about 330 yards in advance of the right of the second parallel , and to commence the approaches between the two parallels by the same method . 124. From this period forward the fire from James Island , Wag ...
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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