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, 1890 - 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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Page 52
... feet , and on Botany Bay 14 feet , making each 140 feet high . I sent orders to Lieutenant Hawkins to go to Kiawah Island , to have a temporary station built there , the smoke of camp preventing communication from Botany Bay . Finding ...
... feet , and on Botany Bay 14 feet , making each 140 feet high . I sent orders to Lieutenant Hawkins to go to Kiawah Island , to have a temporary station built there , the smoke of camp preventing communication from Botany Bay . Finding ...
Page 53
... feet high at Bay Point , and estimated that a tower upon it 35 feet high would com- municate with both stations ; so I directed the engineers to build such a one . There was a great quantity of lumber obtainable from a small_fort ...
... feet high at Bay Point , and estimated that a tower upon it 35 feet high would com- municate with both stations ; so I directed the engineers to build such a one . There was a great quantity of lumber obtainable from a small_fort ...
Page 83
... feet . The On the 14th , the land batteries opened on Fort Sumter , firing three shots ; two struck . About 11 a . m . the wooden gunboats shelled the fort at long range , and at 5.15 p . m . the land batteries again opened on the fort ...
... feet . The On the 14th , the land batteries opened on Fort Sumter , firing three shots ; two struck . About 11 a . m . the wooden gunboats shelled the fort at long range , and at 5.15 p . m . the land batteries again opened on the fort ...
Page 107
... feet , or more in proportion . The engineer officer or some careful person should be provided with matches and linstock , and , at a signal from the commanding officer , should light carefully , and without undue haste , each safety ...
... feet , or more in proportion . The engineer officer or some careful person should be provided with matches and linstock , and , at a signal from the commanding officer , should light carefully , and without undue haste , each safety ...
Page 124
... feet above water , and will be some 2 feet higher at low water . 9.45 . The monitor has been hit three times on water line . 11.15 . Iron ides heavily hit just now , throwing quantities of sand off her deck . 12 m . Fragments of ...
... feet above water , and will be some 2 feet higher at low water . 9.45 . The monitor has been hit three times on water line . 11.15 . Iron ides heavily hit just now , throwing quantities of sand off her deck . 12 m . Fragments of ...
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advance assault Assistant Adjutant-General attack August Battalion Battery Gregg Battery Simkins Battery Wagner Beauregard boats bomb-proof bombardment breaching Brig brigade Brigadier-General Brooke gun Capt Captain casualties Charleston Cheves Colonel columbiad commanding Company Creek Cumming's Point directed duty end of Morris Folly Island force Fort Johnson Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Georgia gunboats Hagood harbor headquarters Hilton Head howitzers infantry iron-clads Ironsides James Island Johnson July Keitt land batteries last night Lieut Lieutenant Light-House Inlet magazine marsh Military District monitors morning Morris Island mortar shells Moultrie o'clock obedient servant officers opened fire operations ordnance Otter Island parapet Parrott rifles party pickets position re-enforcements rear regiment respectfully Ripley Saint Helena Island sand-bags second parallel September sharpshooters shots were fired siege signal steamer Stono Sullivan's Island Sumter telegraph teries to-day transports troops vessels Volunteer Engineers Wagner and Gregg wounded yards