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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22 : campaign of the Carolinas . February and March , 1866 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 98 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 14 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 23 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 71 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 131 (search)
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126.-expedition up the Neuse River, N. C.
Account by a participant.
United States steamer----, off Wilmington, N. C., March 2, 1864.
on the evening of the twenty-ninth of February, we started from our ship on an expedition; the Captain in his gig, with a master's mate and twelve oars.
I had command of the first cutter, also pulling twelve oars, with the coxswain.
We took with us an engineer and two firemen, and were, all told, twenty-five men and officers.
The engineer and firemen accompanied us to take charge of and bring out a blockade-runner, in case we should meet any inside the forts.
We are blockading at the mouth of the Neuse River.
On each side of its mouth are forts, with guns of heavy calibre, some of them of immense range.
Sometimes the blockade-runners come down to the forts, out of range of our guns, of course, and lie there waiting an opportunity to slip out in a dark stormy night, etc. Had we found one of them there, we would have boarded, surpr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 79 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Rebel official account. (search)