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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... vessel . Permanent shore batteries , armed with heavy artillery , supply this defense . 163. The old maxim that " forts cannot withstand a competent land attack , but are able to resist and repel vessels , " is a maxim still . It has ...
... vessel . Permanent shore batteries , armed with heavy artillery , supply this defense . 163. The old maxim that " forts cannot withstand a competent land attack , but are able to resist and repel vessels , " is a maxim still . It has ...
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... vessels of war . There is doubtless also a limit to the weight of the guns that those vessels can carry . Already guns have been manufactured and tested capable of throwing projectiles three or four times heavier than has been found ...
... vessels of war . There is doubtless also a limit to the weight of the guns that those vessels can carry . Already guns have been manufactured and tested capable of throwing projectiles three or four times heavier than has been found ...
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... vessels and to inevitable slaughter ; that is , a failure in all probability would end in a grave disaster , loss of life , and an irreparable loss of strength . It having been stated by Generals Ripley and Taliaferro that the officers ...
... vessels and to inevitable slaughter ; that is , a failure in all probability would end in a grave disaster , loss of life , and an irreparable loss of strength . It having been stated by Generals Ripley and Taliaferro that the officers ...
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... vessels shelled Batteries Wagner and Gregg , but with little effect and slight casualties . Four moni- tors only were with the fleet ; the fifth was seen going to the south without a smoke - stack on the evening of the 12th . Orders ...
... vessels shelled Batteries Wagner and Gregg , but with little effect and slight casualties . Four moni- tors only were with the fleet ; the fifth was seen going to the south without a smoke - stack on the evening of the 12th . Orders ...
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... vessels shelled Battery Wagner . The enemy worked diligently on their batteries . In the evening , large bodies of infantry were landed on the south end of Morris Island . Colonel [ D. B. ] Harris , chief engineer , was directed to ...
... vessels shelled Battery Wagner . The enemy worked diligently on their batteries . In the evening , large bodies of infantry were landed on the south end of Morris Island . Colonel [ D. B. ] Harris , chief engineer , was directed to ...
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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