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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 30: (search)
essels. Boats were sent at once to take off the troops, and by three o'clock nearly eight thousand men were safely landed, with nine days rations and entrenching tools. The point selected was about five miles from the fort, below the neck of Myrtle sound, a long and shallow piece of water, separated from the ocean by a sandspit not more than a hundred yards across. Since the bombardment on Christmas day, Hoke had remained with his division in the neighborhood of Wilmington, and on the 13th,e, and drew up his troops parallel with Terry's command, to watch, and, if possible, intercept the operation; but the cover afforded by the naval fire prevented the rebels from offering any opposition; and, after the landing was once effected, Myrtle sound intervened between the national force and the enemy, so that any rebel attack or movement around its inner extremity would have to be made under the fire of the whole fleet. Hoke therefore simply established a line facing the sea, and threw o