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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... troops in South Carolina to re - enforce General McClellan on the Peninsula , compelled the commanding general of that department to confine himself mainly to the defense of the points which he then occupied . An attack upon Fort Sumter ...
... troops in South Carolina to re - enforce General McClellan on the Peninsula , compelled the commanding general of that department to confine himself mainly to the defense of the points which he then occupied . An attack upon Fort Sumter ...
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... troops by railroad , could be of little avail and confer no special advantage . 28. A land attack upon Charleston was not even discussed at any of the interviews to which I was invited , and was certainly never contemplated by me . 29 ...
... troops by railroad , could be of little avail and confer no special advantage . 28. A land attack upon Charleston was not even discussed at any of the interviews to which I was invited , and was certainly never contemplated by me . 29 ...
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... troops can seldom be made to advance under the fire of even a few well - served pieces of artillery . The hazard of such an undertaking , great as it is under ordinary circumstances , when both parties operate on firm ground , becomes ...
... troops can seldom be made to advance under the fire of even a few well - served pieces of artillery . The hazard of such an undertaking , great as it is under ordinary circumstances , when both parties operate on firm ground , becomes ...
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... troops . to be designated by Brigadier - General Terry , who will command in person . The artillery fire on the work will be kept up until the troops mount the parapet , and will then cease at a given signal . The assault will be in ...
... troops . to be designated by Brigadier - General Terry , who will command in person . The artillery fire on the work will be kept up until the troops mount the parapet , and will then cease at a given signal . The assault will be in ...
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... troops . At 3.30 a . m . of the 10th , accom- panied by Lieutenant Dana , I started for the signal tower , which was to be headquarters for General Gillmore during the action . Arriv- ing there at daybreak , I opened communication with ...
... troops . At 3.30 a . m . of the 10th , accom- panied by Lieutenant Dana , I started for the signal tower , which was to be headquarters for General Gillmore during the action . Arriv- ing there at daybreak , I opened communication with ...
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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