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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... Fort Monroe . Camp Hamilton . Camp Butler .. Fort Calhoun Total Commands . Officers . Present for duty . Men . Aggregate present . Aggregate present and absent . Heavy . Field . Pieces of artillery . 16 16 17 48 1 , 280 1 , 534 1 , 614 ...
... Fort Monroe . Camp Hamilton . Camp Butler .. Fort Calhoun Total Commands . Officers . Present for duty . Men . Aggregate present . Aggregate present and absent . Heavy . Field . Pieces of artillery . 16 16 17 48 1 , 280 1 , 534 1 , 614 ...
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... Fort Delaware ; Fort Mifflin ; New York Har- bor , N. Y .; Newport , R. I .; Fort Trumbull , New London ; Boston Harbor ; Portland , Me .: It The rebel iron - clad steamer Merrimac has destroyed two of our frigates near Fort Monroe and ...
... Fort Delaware ; Fort Mifflin ; New York Har- bor , N. Y .; Newport , R. I .; Fort Trumbull , New London ; Boston Harbor ; Portland , Me .: It The rebel iron - clad steamer Merrimac has destroyed two of our frigates near Fort Monroe and ...
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... Fort Monroe or Fort Calhoun , unless it will enable you to retain possession of Newport News . By authorizing you to with- draw from Newport News I do not mean to give you the order to do so , but to relieve you from that grave sense of ...
... Fort Monroe or Fort Calhoun , unless it will enable you to retain possession of Newport News . By authorizing you to with- draw from Newport News I do not mean to give you the order to do so , but to relieve you from that grave sense of ...
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... Fort Monroe as a base of operations against the army of the rebels at Manassas and the South . JOHN E. WOOL , Major - General . FORT MONROE , Va . , Hon . E. M. STANTON , Secretary of War : March 13 , 1862-2 a . m . I received last ...
... Fort Monroe as a base of operations against the army of the rebels at Manassas and the South . JOHN E. WOOL , Major - General . FORT MONROE , Va . , Hon . E. M. STANTON , Secretary of War : March 13 , 1862-2 a . m . I received last ...
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... Fort Monroe . I have only about 110 regulars for Fort Monroe and Newport News . Fort Monroe is too important a posi- tion to be neglected . I have never failed to so represent , and ask for troops and other means of defense . JOHN E ...
... Fort Monroe . I have only about 110 regulars for Fort Monroe and Newport News . Fort Monroe is too important a posi- tion to be neglected . I have never failed to so represent , and ask for troops and other means of defense . JOHN E ...
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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