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 120
United States. War Department. The enemy have to - day transferred large bodies of troops from Folly to Morris Island - probably six regiments of infantry . From Major Manigault's diary is extracted the following : The Ironsides and two ...
United States. War Department. The enemy have to - day transferred large bodies of troops from Folly to Morris Island - probably six regiments of infantry . From Major Manigault's diary is extracted the following : The Ironsides and two ...
Page 121
... to be evacuated to - night , though up to 12 midnight there was nothing to indicate that such a movement was intended . Honorable Secretary of War telegraphs to - day that orders were sent yesterday to Wilmington to forward from there ...
... to be evacuated to - night , though up to 12 midnight there was nothing to indicate that such a movement was intended . Honorable Secretary of War telegraphs to - day that orders were sent yesterday to Wilmington to forward from there ...
Page 127
... to- day by firing 5 shells , 3 only of which burst , and it was demonstrated that Black Island could not be reached with that gun . The large Blakely gun just mounted at Rattery Ramsay was fired to - day at 1 p . m . , with a charge of ...
... to- day by firing 5 shells , 3 only of which burst , and it was demonstrated that Black Island could not be reached with that gun . The large Blakely gun just mounted at Rattery Ramsay was fired to - day at 1 p . m . , with a charge of ...
Page 128
... in the harbor . The fleet at Hilton Head to - day is two steam frigates , two sloops of war , seven gunboats , and fifty - three transports . General Walker telegraphs that out of 6 of the Yankee telegraph party , Colonel [ William ] ...
... in the harbor . The fleet at Hilton Head to - day is two steam frigates , two sloops of war , seven gunboats , and fifty - three transports . General Walker telegraphs that out of 6 of the Yankee telegraph party , Colonel [ William ] ...
Page 129
United States. War Department. Captain Walpole reports that enemy have been passing to and from Dixon's Island to Green Creek all day . The fleet at Port Royal is two steam frigates , two sloops of war , nine gunboats , one iron - clad ...
United States. War Department. Captain Walpole reports that enemy have been passing to and from Dixon's Island to Green Creek all day . The fleet at Port Royal is two steam frigates , two sloops of war , nine gunboats , one iron - clad ...
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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