The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesSeries I: Contains the 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, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863. |
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... front of the left of the intrenchments , and Gen- eral Weitzel took the same lines in front of the right of the works . The first line of battle , being thus composed of regiments of each bri- gade , was 500 yards from the enemy . The ...
... front of the left of the intrenchments , and Gen- eral Weitzel took the same lines in front of the right of the works . The first line of battle , being thus composed of regiments of each bri- gade , was 500 yards from the enemy . The ...
Page 360
... front , but which necessarily , for a short time , exposed the right flank of the Third Brigade . Immediate advantage was taken of this by the enemy , who , having a heavy force concealed in dry ditches and the thick undergrowth on my ...
... front , but which necessarily , for a short time , exposed the right flank of the Third Brigade . Immediate advantage was taken of this by the enemy , who , having a heavy force concealed in dry ditches and the thick undergrowth on my ...
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... front to observe what was going on , when I saw that the enemy was posted in a very strong position in the front of a skirt of wood which ran for some distance at right angles to the road on which we were moving and then ran off ...
... front to observe what was going on , when I saw that the enemy was posted in a very strong position in the front of a skirt of wood which ran for some distance at right angles to the road on which we were moving and then ran off ...
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TEXAS NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA | 3 |
VOLUME I | 14 |
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Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Adjutant advance Amite River arms arrived artillery attack Baton Rouge battalion battery Bayou Bayou Sara Bayou Teche boats bridge Brig Brigadier-General Camp Moore Capt Captain captured cavalry citizens Colonel Comdg command communication Confederate cotton DANIEL RUGGLES dispatch District Donaldsonville duty enemy enemy's engaged expedition fire fleet force Fort Saint Philip front Galveston Government Gulf gunboats guns HDQRS HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT honor horses inclose Inclosure Indians Infantry instant Jackson killed land Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Louisiana Major-General Major-General Butler Massachusetts ment miles military Mississippi morning N. P. BANKS negroes night o'clock obedient servant officers Opelousas Orleans Pass pickets Ponchatoula Port Hudson position railroad re-enforcements rear rebel received Red River regiment respectfully road RUGGLES Secretary sent skirmishers steamer Texas tion transportation troops Twenty-first Indiana U. S. Army United vessels Vicksburg Volunteers Weitzel wounded York