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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... dispatch to the Secre- tary of War last evening the Monitor arrived , and saved the Minnesota and the St. Lawrence , which were both aground when she arrived . The Merrimac , supported by the Yorktown and Jamestown , com- menced an ...
... dispatch to the Secre- tary of War last evening the Monitor arrived , and saved the Minnesota and the St. Lawrence , which were both aground when she arrived . The Merrimac , supported by the Yorktown and Jamestown , com- menced an ...
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... dispatch of the 20th , * in relation to the expected attack on Newport News , has been received and communicated to the Secretary of the Navy and the General Commanding . Accept my thanks for your prompt and vigilant attention . It will ...
... dispatch of the 20th , * in relation to the expected attack on Newport News , has been received and communicated to the Secretary of the Navy and the General Commanding . Accept my thanks for your prompt and vigilant attention . It will ...
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... dispatch and a most excellent map , by which he will explain in detail my plans for taking Norfolk , Yorktown , and Richmond . There has been no time in the last three months until recently that Richmond could not have been taken with ...
... dispatch and a most excellent map , by which he will explain in detail my plans for taking Norfolk , Yorktown , and Richmond . There has been no time in the last three months until recently that Richmond could not have been taken with ...
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... dispatch the moment you receive it . Spare no pains or expense to get the committee together immediately . Act with the utmost energy . You and each member of the committee will consider this whole matter confidential . P. H. WATSON ...
... dispatch the moment you receive it . Spare no pains or expense to get the committee together immediately . Act with the utmost energy . You and each member of the committee will consider this whole matter confidential . P. H. WATSON ...
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... dispatch to send a fast vessel to observe the mouth of the Potomac . Let this duty be well looked to . Will General Hooker please to inform me of this reaching Captain Wyman . JNO . A. DAHLGREN , Commandant , Navy - Yard . WASHINGTON ...
... dispatch to send a fast vessel to observe the mouth of the Potomac . Let this duty be well looked to . Will General Hooker please to inform me of this reaching Captain Wyman . JNO . A. DAHLGREN , Commandant , Navy - Yard . WASHINGTON ...
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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