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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... rear and 150,000 advancing in front , the rebel army would have been destroyed . In conclusion , I would commend to your special attention Col. T. J. Cram . I am in want of another brigadier - general , having but one , who is at ...
... rear and 150,000 advancing in front , the rebel army would have been destroyed . In conclusion , I would commend to your special attention Col. T. J. Cram . I am in want of another brigadier - general , having but one , who is at ...
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... rear . This plan was adopted by me , and the enemy on his first advance , with a force of five to one against us , having been repulsed and severely punished , the works were pushed forward with great vigor . The operations below ( in ...
... rear . This plan was adopted by me , and the enemy on his first advance , with a force of five to one against us , having been repulsed and severely punished , the works were pushed forward with great vigor . The operations below ( in ...
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... rear and cut him off from his base while our troops were being assembled in the intrenched camp in his front . He would thus be defeated . Should Burnside's expedition march from Edenton to Suffolk , after taking Roanoke Island , to ...
... rear and cut him off from his base while our troops were being assembled in the intrenched camp in his front . He would thus be defeated . Should Burnside's expedition march from Edenton to Suffolk , after taking Roanoke Island , to ...
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... rear . This is only a suggestion , and is by no means intended to interfere with your own dispositions of your troops . I trust that , with the aid of Generals Loring and Randolph , recently sent to you , and of General Ransom , who ...
... rear . This is only a suggestion , and is by no means intended to interfere with your own dispositions of your troops . I trust that , with the aid of Generals Loring and Randolph , recently sent to you , and of General Ransom , who ...
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... rear , as the enemy can approach me from James River on my front and Albe- marle Sound and the Chowan River in the rear . The principal obstacles to the front attack are the batteries . On the direct approach up the Elizabeth River ...
... rear , as the enemy can approach me from James River on my front and Albe- marle Sound and the Chowan River in the rear . The principal obstacles to the front attack are the batteries . On the direct approach up the Elizabeth River ...
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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