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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... parapet arranged for infantry fire , and twenty - one pieces of light artillery . It also contained three 30 - pounder Parrott rifles and one Wiard field gun , to be used against Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg . 111. The breaching ...
... parapet arranged for infantry fire , and twenty - one pieces of light artillery . It also contained three 30 - pounder Parrott rifles and one Wiard field gun , to be used against Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg . 111. The breaching ...
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... parapet of Wagner , whence , rebounding upward , they dropped nearly vertically , exploding in or over the work and ... parapets of their works to while away their leisure time , or groping their way forward among the torpedoes with a ...
... parapet of Wagner , whence , rebounding upward , they dropped nearly vertically , exploding in or over the work and ... parapets of their works to while away their leisure time , or groping their way forward among the torpedoes with a ...
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... parapet , and will then cease at a given signal . The assault will be in three columns , as follows : First . A column of two small regiments of picked troops will debouch from the advanced trenches , mount the parapet of the sea front ...
... parapet , and will then cease at a given signal . The assault will be in three columns , as follows : First . A column of two small regiments of picked troops will debouch from the advanced trenches , mount the parapet of the sea front ...
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... parapet , retreated in disorder , under a destructive fire from our guns , includ- ing those of Fort Sumter . The ... parapets must be relied on . Orders were issued , however , for the remounting of the 10 - inch gun , if practicable ...
... parapet , retreated in disorder , under a destructive fire from our guns , includ- ing those of Fort Sumter . The ... parapets must be relied on . Orders were issued , however , for the remounting of the 10 - inch gun , if practicable ...
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... parapet much loosened and undermined , though not displaced ; one 10 - inch and one 11 - inch gun untouched ; Brooke gun - carriage shattered , but can easily be mounted on 10 - inch columbiad carriage . During the seven days that the ...
... parapet much loosened and undermined , though not displaced ; one 10 - inch and one 11 - inch gun untouched ; Brooke gun - carriage shattered , but can easily be mounted on 10 - inch columbiad carriage . During the seven days that the ...
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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