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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... received orders to repair to Washington . I there learned that it was the wish of the Navy De- partment to make another trial of the iron - clad gunboats against the defenses of Charleston Harbor . My views in regard to the part which ...
... received orders to repair to Washington . I there learned that it was the wish of the Navy De- partment to make another trial of the iron - clad gunboats against the defenses of Charleston Harbor . My views in regard to the part which ...
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... received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in the fire directed upon it from our batteries and the gunboats . The firing from the distant James Island ...
... received an unceasing fire of small - arms , while the guns and sharpshooters in Wagner opened vigorously at every lull in the fire directed upon it from our batteries and the gunboats . The firing from the distant James Island ...
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... received a letter from the admiral , asking me when my batteries would " be able to operate on Sum- ter , " and whether he " could depend " on my " driving the enemy out of it , " and stating also that " with Sumter in our possession ...
... received a letter from the admiral , asking me when my batteries would " be able to operate on Sum- ter , " and whether he " could depend " on my " driving the enemy out of it , " and stating also that " with Sumter in our possession ...
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... received an order from Major - General Hunter to send 4 officers immediately to report to Colonel Barton , command- ing at Fort Pulaski , for duty in the field . I sent Lieutenants [ Town- send L. ] Hatfield , Hamner , Weber , and ...
... received an order from Major - General Hunter to send 4 officers immediately to report to Colonel Barton , command- ing at Fort Pulaski , for duty in the field . I sent Lieutenants [ Town- send L. ] Hatfield , Hamner , Weber , and ...
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... received a letter , dated June 2 , from Lieutenant [ Thomas H. ] Carrique , acting signal officer , stationed on the U. S. S. Pawnee , inclosing copy of communication from Rear - Admiral DuPont , authorizing the commander of the Pawnee ...
... received a letter , dated June 2 , from Lieutenant [ Thomas H. ] Carrique , acting signal officer , stationed on the U. S. S. Pawnee , inclosing copy of communication from Rear - Admiral DuPont , authorizing the commander of the Pawnee ...
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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