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, 1883 - 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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... opened her fire upon the Minnesota . Promptly obeying the signal to attack , the Monitor ran down past the Minnesota and laid herself close alongside the Merrimac , between that formidable vessel and the Minnesota . The fierce conflict ...
... opened her fire upon the Minnesota . Promptly obeying the signal to attack , the Monitor ran down past the Minnesota and laid herself close alongside the Merrimac , between that formidable vessel and the Minnesota . The fierce conflict ...
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... opened fire on the steamers Min- nesota and Roanoke , which attempted on the 8th to pass to Newport News to the assistance of the frigates attacked by the Virginia . The Minnesota ran aground before reaching there . The Roanoke was ...
... opened fire on the steamers Min- nesota and Roanoke , which attempted on the 8th to pass to Newport News to the assistance of the frigates attacked by the Virginia . The Minnesota ran aground before reaching there . The Roanoke was ...
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... opened upon her again , she having run on shore in shoal water . The carnage , havoc , and dismay caused by our fire compelled them to haul down their colors and to hoist a white flag at their gaff and half- mast and another at the main ...
... opened upon her again , she having run on shore in shoal water . The carnage , havoc , and dismay caused by our fire compelled them to haul down their colors and to hoist a white flag at their gaff and half- mast and another at the main ...
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... opened fire . The Monitor met them at once and opened CHAP . XIX . ] 21 CORRESPONDENCE , ETC. - UNION .
... opened fire . The Monitor met them at once and opened CHAP . XIX . ] 21 CORRESPONDENCE , ETC. - UNION .
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United States. War Department. fire . The Monitor met them at once and opened her fire , when all th enemy's vessels retired excepting the Merrimac . These two iron - clad fought , part of the time touching each other , from 8 a . m . to ...
United States. War Department. fire . The Monitor met them at once and opened her fire , when all th enemy's vessels retired excepting the Merrimac . These two iron - clad fought , part of the time touching each other , from 8 a . m . to ...
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advance AMBROSE E ammunition arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery battle Beaufort Berne boats breastworks bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Burnside camp Capt Captain cavalry charge Colonel Shaw companies Creek Croatan Sound defense DEPARTMENT OF NORFOLK Department of North dispatch duty Elizabeth City enemy enemy's February fire flank fleet force Fort Monroe Fort Thompson Foster Fourth Rhode Island Goldsborough guard gunboats guns HDQRS HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT howitzers Huger immediately Infantry instant J. P. BENJAMIN James River killed Kinston landing Legion Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major-General March March 14 Massachusetts Merrimac miles morning Nag's Head Navy night Ninth New York Norfolk North Carolina o'clock obedient servant officers ordered pickets position railroad re-enforcements rear rebel received regiment Reno respectfully retreat returned Rhode Island Richmond road Roanoke Island Secretary Secretary of War sent shell shot soon steamer transportation troops Twenty-first Massachusetts U. S. Army vessels Virginia Volunteers Wise wounded Yorktown