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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... picket at the creek . About noon the commanding officer of this picket sent me word that he was hard pressed by a large rebel mounted force . I ordered the division to fall in at once , and advanced a part of Second Brigade and one ...
... picket at the creek . About noon the commanding officer of this picket sent me word that he was hard pressed by a large rebel mounted force . I ordered the division to fall in at once , and advanced a part of Second Brigade and one ...
Page 19
... pickets stationed there fled very hastily on our approach and gave the alarm in their camp . As it was too dark to push my advance forward and endeavor to intercept them , I awaited daybreak , and then deployed the First Bri- gade ...
... pickets stationed there fled very hastily on our approach and gave the alarm in their camp . As it was too dark to push my advance forward and endeavor to intercept them , I awaited daybreak , and then deployed the First Bri- gade ...
Page 34
... picket post , when the advance guard began skirmishing with rebel pickets . Here ensued a run- ning fight for some miles until we came upon a portion of the enemy , supposed to be about 120 or 140 men , drawn up in line on the oppo ...
... picket post , when the advance guard began skirmishing with rebel pickets . Here ensued a run- ning fight for some miles until we came upon a portion of the enemy , supposed to be about 120 or 140 men , drawn up in line on the oppo ...
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... . Report any change of pickets on Lookout Mountain . J. J. REYNOLDS , Major - General . HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CORPS , Lookout Valley , Tenn 64 KY . , SW . VA . , TENN . , MISS . , N. ALA . , AND N. GA . [ CHAP . XLIII .
... . Report any change of pickets on Lookout Mountain . J. J. REYNOLDS , Major - General . HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CORPS , Lookout Valley , Tenn 64 KY . , SW . VA . , TENN . , MISS . , N. ALA . , AND N. GA . [ CHAP . XLIII .
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... picket lines . As many are visible now as this time last evening . I have sent for the Ninety- ninth Ohio from the island to strengthen my pickets . Shall I stay here or go to the regiments re - enforcing General Hooker ? 5 R R - VOL ...
... picket lines . As many are visible now as this time last evening . I have sent for the Ninety- ninth Ohio from the island to strengthen my pickets . Shall I stay here or go to the regiments re - enforcing General Hooker ? 5 R R - VOL ...
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advance Answer Army Corps arrived artillery assault Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery Bean's Station boats bridge Bridgeport Brig Brigadier-General Brown's Ferry Burnside camp Capt Captain captured cavalry Chattanooga Collierville Colonel Hecker column command companies Cross-Roads crossed Cumberland December direction dispatch East Tennessee Eastport enemy enemy's engaged fire flank force forward front Geary guns halted HDQRS HEADQUARTERS hill Holston honor Hooker horses Illinois Indiana JAMES LONGSTREET JOSEPH HOOKER Kentucky killed Knoxville Lenoir's Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Longstreet Loudon Major-General manding Michigan miles morning Morristown Mossy Creek Mountain move night November obedient servant occupied October 27 officers Ohio ordered pickets position prisoners railroad re-enforcements rear rebels received regiment respectfully road Rogersville Schurz scouts Second Brigade Second Division sent Shellmound Sherman SIXTEENTH ARMY skirmishers south side Strawberry Plains Tenn Third Brigade troops Tuscumbia Twelfth Corps U. S. Army Volunteer Infantry wagons Wauhatchie wounded