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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... rifle - pits and batteries on Morris Island in flank and reverse , choosing his own position . He will cover General Strong's landing . III . Two regiments of infantry , a battery of light artillery , and five Requa rifle batteries will ...
... rifle - pits and batteries on Morris Island in flank and reverse , choosing his own position . He will cover General Strong's landing . III . Two regiments of infantry , a battery of light artillery , and five Requa rifle batteries will ...
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... rifle ( siege ) . G. One 8 - inch navy gun . H. One 8 - inch navy gun . I. One 8 - inch sea - coast howitzer . ( See ... rifles , and two Wiard rifles . 2. Battery Weed , in rear of right of Battery Reynolds , comprising four 10 - inch ...
... rifle ( siege ) . G. One 8 - inch navy gun . H. One 8 - inch navy gun . I. One 8 - inch sea - coast howitzer . ( See ... rifles , and two Wiard rifles . 2. Battery Weed , in rear of right of Battery Reynolds , comprising four 10 - inch ...
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... rifle batteries . * These works were all com- pleted by the 23d of July . 102. July 21 , I directed an emplacement for one 8 - inch Parrott rifle to be prepared next the marsh , on our left and to the rear of the first parallel . It was ...
... rifle batteries . * These works were all com- pleted by the 23d of July . 102. July 21 , I directed an emplacement for one 8 - inch Parrott rifle to be prepared next the marsh , on our left and to the rear of the first parallel . It was ...
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... rifles and one Wiard field gun , to be used against Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg . 111. The breaching batteries against Fort Sumter located in this parallel contained two 8 - inch Parrott rifles , and five 100 - pounder Par rott rifles ...
... rifles and one Wiard field gun , to be used against Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg . 111. The breaching batteries against Fort Sumter located in this parallel contained two 8 - inch Parrott rifles , and five 100 - pounder Par rott rifles ...
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... rifle , two 8 - inch Parrott rifles , and four 100 - pounder Parrott rifles . All these pieces took an effective part in the first bombardment of Fort Sumter , from the 17th to the 23d of August , although some of them did not open ...
... rifle , two 8 - inch Parrott rifles , and four 100 - pounder Parrott rifles . All these pieces took an effective part in the first bombardment of Fort Sumter , from the 17th to the 23d of August , although some of them did not open ...
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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