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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... transportation to them was accomplished at night and in silence . Moreover , all signs of work had to be carefully concealed by day . One fortunate circumstance favored these operations . A blockade runner was chased ashore just south ...
... transportation to them was accomplished at night and in silence . Moreover , all signs of work had to be carefully concealed by day . One fortunate circumstance favored these operations . A blockade runner was chased ashore just south ...
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... transportation to these batteries , and the labor of mounting the carriages and guns , could be performed during the night time only . 110. The defensive arrangements of the second parallel were , for all practical purposes , complete ...
... transportation to these batteries , and the labor of mounting the carriages and guns , could be performed during the night time only . 110. The defensive arrangements of the second parallel were , for all practical purposes , complete ...
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... transportation , and at daylight we started and visited several points on Saint Helena Island , and determined the location of that tower ; returning to Beaufort , at noon we started for Otter Island , but , getting aground , were ...
... transportation , and at daylight we started and visited several points on Saint Helena Island , and determined the location of that tower ; returning to Beaufort , at noon we started for Otter Island , but , getting aground , were ...
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... transportation and every appliance of war , supported by the guns of a powerful and numerous fleet . Making a strong demonstration against James Island , filling the Stono with gunboats and troops , and occupying Battery Island in force ...
... transportation and every appliance of war , supported by the guns of a powerful and numerous fleet . Making a strong demonstration against James Island , filling the Stono with gunboats and troops , and occupying Battery Island in force ...
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... transportation were necessarily precarious , being old , patched - up , overworked steamboats . The undersigned was present at the conference and discussion . THOMAS JORDAN , Brigadier - General , and Chief of Staff . ADDENDA NO . 3 ...
... transportation were necessarily precarious , being old , patched - up , overworked steamboats . The undersigned was present at the conference and discussion . THOMAS JORDAN , Brigadier - General , and Chief of Staff . ADDENDA NO . 3 ...
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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