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, 1892 - 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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... crater and several hundred yards of the enemy's line to the right and left of it and a short detached line in front of the crater were oc- cupied by our troops without opposition . Immediately in front of this and not 150 yards off ...
... crater and several hundred yards of the enemy's line to the right and left of it and a short detached line in front of the crater were oc- cupied by our troops without opposition . Immediately in front of this and not 150 yards off ...
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... crater and the holding on to that was of no possible use to us , because the enemy's line was not such a line as would be of advantage to us to hold except to go from it to the crest ; and that the troops . were to be withdrawn when the ...
... crater and the holding on to that was of no possible use to us , because the enemy's line was not such a line as would be of advantage to us to hold except to go from it to the crest ; and that the troops . were to be withdrawn when the ...
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... crater and addressed to General Burnside , which dispatch the orderly , not know- ing where to find General Burnside , had brought to his old headquarters , where it found me . That dispatch , so far as I recollect the purport of it ...
... crater and addressed to General Burnside , which dispatch the orderly , not know- ing where to find General Burnside , had brought to his old headquarters , where it found me . That dispatch , so far as I recollect the purport of it ...
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... crater . At the time the order was given to withdraw the troops , the report of Major - General Ord was that the crater of the mine was so overcrowded with men that it would be nothing but murder to send any more men forward there . I ...
... crater . At the time the order was given to withdraw the troops , the report of Major - General Ord was that the crater of the mine was so overcrowded with men that it would be nothing but murder to send any more men forward there . I ...
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... crater , and when I had reason to suppose it was owing to some difficulty on the part of the troops themselves ( so far as any official report came to me ) , rather than obstacles presented by the enemy , I sent a dispatch to Gen- eral ...
... crater , and when I had reason to suppose it was owing to some difficulty on the part of the troops themselves ( so far as any official report came to me ) , rather than obstacles presented by the enemy , I sent a dispatch to Gen- eral ...
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advance Appomattox Artillery assault Assistant Adjutant-General attack Battery Bermuda Hundred breast-works bridge Brig Brigadier-General Burnside camp Capt Captain captured casualties Cavalry Cemetery Hill charge Chickahominy City Point Colonel Colored Troops column command Company Connecticut covering operations crater crest crossed the James Deep Bottom dispatch Eighteenth Army Eighteenth Corps enemy enemy's line engaged Fifth Corps fire flank Fort Powhatan forward front of Petersburg guns HDQRS Heavy Artillery Infantry intrenchments James River Jerusalem plank road July 26 July 30 June 12 killed Lieut Lieutenant line of battle Major-General marched Massachusetts Meade miles morning mortars moved night Ninth Army Ninth Army Corps Ninth Corps obedient servant occupied officers operations June ordered Pennsylvania Petersburg picket portion of report position Potomac rear rebel regiment relieved remained report here omitted respectfully rifle-pits Second Brigade Second Corps Second Division Sixth Corps Third Division U. S. Army Volunteers wounded XXXVI yards