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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... night of its arrival , and surprised or rather captured the very strong works northeast of Petersburg before sufficient force could be got in there by the enemy to hold them . He was joined the night following this cap- ture by the ...
... night of its arrival , and surprised or rather captured the very strong works northeast of Petersburg before sufficient force could be got in there by the enemy to hold them . He was joined the night following this cap- ture by the ...
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... night . Next the Ninth Corps will be similarly withdrawn , and its place in the lines taken by all of the Tenth Corps which can be spared from Bermuda Hundred , where the works are so strong as to be safe with a small gar- rison , say ...
... night . Next the Ninth Corps will be similarly withdrawn , and its place in the lines taken by all of the Tenth Corps which can be spared from Bermuda Hundred , where the works are so strong as to be safe with a small gar- rison , say ...
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... night and night before . The army occupies about the same lines as when you were here . The Eighteenth and Ninth Corps are alone engaged in any- thing like siege work , their effort being to get possession of a knoll be- fore them . If ...
... night and night before . The army occupies about the same lines as when you were here . The Eighteenth and Ninth Corps are alone engaged in any- thing like siege work , their effort being to get possession of a knoll be- fore them . If ...
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... night . They found no great stock of supplies in the country . Their horses fed chiefly on green oats and wheat . About 3,000 negroes , who had joined the column in Dinwiddie and Amelia , were with it when it was attacked . Kautz ...
... night . They found no great stock of supplies in the country . Their horses fed chiefly on green oats and wheat . About 3,000 negroes , who had joined the column in Dinwiddie and Amelia , were with it when it was attacked . Kautz ...
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... night . No working parties coming , on the night of the 29th the matter was again raised - by whom I do not know - but General Burnside declined to have any trees cut on that night , lest it might give the rebels an idea of the attack ...
... night . No working parties coming , on the night of the 29th the matter was again raised - by whom I do not know - but General Burnside declined to have any trees cut on that night , lest it might give the rebels an idea of the attack ...
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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