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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... rear of the city of Charleston , formidable defenses were also erected , covering the approach down the Peninsula , but no very reliable information as to their extent and strength had been ob- tained by us prior to the siege of Fort ...
... rear of the city of Charleston , formidable defenses were also erected , covering the approach down the Peninsula , but no very reliable information as to their extent and strength had been ob- tained by us prior to the siege of Fort ...
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... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren and myself , but it is un- necessary to mention them here . 41. I assumed command of the Department of the South on the 12th of June . Our forces had then control of the coast from Light- House Inlet to Saint ...
... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren and myself , but it is un- necessary to mention them here . 41. I assumed command of the Department of the South on the 12th of June . Our forces had then control of the coast from Light- House Inlet to Saint ...
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... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren , which entered the main channel abreast of Morris Island , soon after our batteries opened . The monitors continued their fire through the day , mostly against Fort Wagner . • On the morning of the 11th , at ...
... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren , which entered the main channel abreast of Morris Island , soon after our batteries opened . The monitors continued their fire through the day , mostly against Fort Wagner . • On the morning of the 11th , at ...
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... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren , to estab- lish counter - batteries against it . 75. It was determined to attempt , with ... rear of right of Battery Reynolds , comprising four 10 - inch mortars . * Printed as Nos . 9 and 12 , under Operations ...
... Rear - Admiral Dahlgren , to estab- lish counter - batteries against it . 75. It was determined to attempt , with ... rear of right of Battery Reynolds , comprising four 10 - inch mortars . * Printed as Nos . 9 and 12 , under Operations ...
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United States. War Department. 3. Battery Hays , in rear and on the left of Battery Reynolds , comprising nine 30 and four 20 pounder Parrott rifles . 4. Battery O'Rorke , in rear of the right of Battery Hays , comprising five 10- inch ...
United States. War Department. 3. Battery Hays , in rear and on the left of Battery Reynolds , comprising nine 30 and four 20 pounder Parrott rifles . 4. Battery O'Rorke , in rear of the right of Battery Hays , comprising five 10- inch ...
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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