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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Page 7
... soon as the fleet should reach the city , the outer line of defenses thus broken through would be abandoned by the enemy , for the control of Cooper and Wando Rivers by our gunboats , and the operations of the land forces which they ...
... soon as the fleet should reach the city , the outer line of defenses thus broken through would be abandoned by the enemy , for the control of Cooper and Wando Rivers by our gunboats , and the operations of the land forces which they ...
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... Soon after midnight on the night of August 21 , the Marsh Battery opened on the city of Charleston , firing only a few shots . Firing was resumed the second night thereafter , but the piece ( an 8 - inch Parrott rifle ) burst at the ...
... Soon after midnight on the night of August 21 , the Marsh Battery opened on the city of Charleston , firing only a few shots . Firing was resumed the second night thereafter , but the piece ( an 8 - inch Parrott rifle ) burst at the ...
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... soon ascertained that we had now reached the point where the really formidable defensive arrange- ments of the enemy commenced . An elaborate and ingenious sys- tem of torpedo mines , to be exploded by the tread of persons walk- ing ...
... soon ascertained that we had now reached the point where the really formidable defensive arrange- ments of the enemy commenced . An elaborate and ingenious sys- tem of torpedo mines , to be exploded by the tread of persons walk- ing ...
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... against open assaults , but should have been removed to facilitate night sorties , as soon as we resorted to the attack by regular approaches . 173. While it would have been entirely practicable for us CHAP . XL . ] 37 GENERAL REPORTS .
... against open assaults , but should have been removed to facilitate night sorties , as soon as we resorted to the attack by regular approaches . 173. While it would have been entirely practicable for us CHAP . XL . ] 37 GENERAL REPORTS .
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... soon after the events referred to , but could not be finished , revised , and corrected , owing to the exigencies of the public service , until the present moment . The report has been made more in detail than otherwise would have been ...
... soon after the events referred to , but could not be finished , revised , and corrected , owing to the exigencies of the public service , until the present moment . The report has been made more in detail than otherwise would have been ...
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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