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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... received dispatch from the President , informing me that you are no longer General - in - Chief of the Army . You command the Army of the Potomac . My orders are hereafter to be received from the Secretary of War . I have urged for ...
... received dispatch from the President , informing me that you are no longer General - in - Chief of the Army . You command the Army of the Potomac . My orders are hereafter to be received from the Secretary of War . I have urged for ...
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... received by this Department : FAIRFAX COURT - HOUSE , March 13-11 20 p . m . Hon . E. M. STANTON , Secretary of War : I would be glad to have instructions given to General Wool that the troops and stores now being sent down to Fort ...
... received by this Department : FAIRFAX COURT - HOUSE , March 13-11 20 p . m . Hon . E. M. STANTON , Secretary of War : I would be glad to have instructions given to General Wool that the troops and stores now being sent down to Fort ...
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... ( Received March 14 , 1862. ) Your telegram relative to barges received . I have ordered eight more sent down . I have seen nothing yet to satisfy me that in the next engagement the Monitor will not be sunk . M. C. MEIGS , Quartermaster ...
... ( Received March 14 , 1862. ) Your telegram relative to barges received . I have ordered eight more sent down . I have seen nothing yet to satisfy me that in the next engagement the Monitor will not be sunk . M. C. MEIGS , Quartermaster ...
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... received . If a movement is to be made upon Norfolk - always a favorite measure of this Department - instant measures will be taken to advise and strengthen Flag - Officer Goldsborough , but unless such be the case , I should be ...
... received . If a movement is to be made upon Norfolk - always a favorite measure of this Department - instant measures will be taken to advise and strengthen Flag - Officer Goldsborough , but unless such be the case , I should be ...
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... received instructions . Colonel Ewell had better be directed to apply all the force he can procure to the erection of those lines . Captain Rives and Meade , of the Engineer Corps , are on duty in the Peninsula , and subject to your ...
... received instructions . Colonel Ewell had better be directed to apply all the force he can procure to the erection of those lines . Captain Rives and Meade , of the Engineer Corps , are on duty in the Peninsula , and subject to your ...
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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