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, 1891 - 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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... destroyed a considerable number of boats both going and coming . Information gained from deserters and others estimate the strength of the rebel army at Dalton to be 45,000 infantry and about 12,000 cavalry . The enemy has two brigades ...
... destroyed a considerable number of boats both going and coming . Information gained from deserters and others estimate the strength of the rebel army at Dalton to be 45,000 infantry and about 12,000 cavalry . The enemy has two brigades ...
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... destroyed a large boat , that the enemy expected a battery of artillery at Triana . Owing to the insufficient character of the defenses of the boat , the machinery being utterly unprotected , and the fact that numbers of lives would be ...
... destroyed a large boat , that the enemy expected a battery of artillery at Triana . Owing to the insufficient character of the defenses of the boat , the machinery being utterly unprotected , and the fact that numbers of lives would be ...
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United States. War Department. destroyed , the train sent to bring them having run off the track . Two pieces thus left were drawn in by the men of the Ninth Corps . Before the Fourth Corps had proceeded 5 miles beyond the river toward ...
United States. War Department. destroyed , the train sent to bring them having run off the track . Two pieces thus left were drawn in by the men of the Ninth Corps . Before the Fourth Corps had proceeded 5 miles beyond the river toward ...
Page 53
... destroyed the railroad entirely to 2 miles beyond Blue Springs ; returned to Bull's Gap at night . April 26 , the Second Brigade reached Jonesborough in the even- ing . April 27 , marched back , destroying the railroad to Greeneville ...
... destroyed the railroad entirely to 2 miles beyond Blue Springs ; returned to Bull's Gap at night . April 26 , the Second Brigade reached Jonesborough in the even- ing . April 27 , marched back , destroying the railroad to Greeneville ...
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... destroyed for the enemy over half a million dollars ' worth of Government stores , besides capturing and destroying 3,000 or 4,000 stands of small - arms . Our operations necessitated the presence of from 5,000 to 8,000 of the enemy's ...
... destroyed for the enemy over half a million dollars ' worth of Government stores , besides capturing and destroying 3,000 or 4,000 stands of small - arms . Our operations necessitated the presence of from 5,000 to 8,000 of the enemy's ...
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advance April arrived Assistant Adjutant-General attack Battalion battery boat bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Cairo camp Capt Captain captured Cavalry Cavalry Division Colonel column command Company Confederate Creek crossed Demopolis detachment encamped enemy enemy's engaged expedition fall back February February 22 fire flag of truce forage Forrest Fort Pillow gun-boat HDQRS HEADQUARTERS honor to report horses Illinois Illinois Infantry Inclosure January Kentucky killed Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major Booth Major-General mand marched Memphis Meridian miles Mississippi morning moved negroes night obedient servant officers Ohio Okolona ordered Paducah pickets Pillow position prisoners railroad rear rebels regiment Report of Brig respectfully river road scouts Second Brigade sent Sevierville shot Sixteenth Army Sixteenth Army Corps Sixth U. S. Heavy skirmishers soldiers Strawberry Plains surrender Tenn Tennessee Cavalry Tennessee River Third Brigade troops Tunnel Hill U. S. Army U. S. Heavy Artillery Union City Vicksburg Volunteers West Tennessee wounded Yazoo