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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 189 (search)
Purnel Legion, a portion of the Sixth Michigan, the Seventeenth Massachusetts, and some companies of the Second Delaware regiment. The United States revenue gunboat Hercules, Rufus Coffin, Lieutenant commanding, arrived in port about ten o'clock yesterday, from a cruise in Pocomoke Bay and Tangier's Sound, and brings information from the eastern shore of Virginia up to Monday night. Brigadier-General Lockwood was still at Newtown, with five thousand men, and also had one thousand men at Snowhill. He designed marching to Drummondtown and establishing there his Headquarters. The place was held by a squadron of cavalry, and the national flag was waving over it. The greater proportion of the inhabitants are Union in feeling, and received the proclamation of Maj.-Gen. Dix with delight. In a few days General Lockwood would move into Northampton County, with a force sufficient to overcome any opposition from the secessionists, who would be obliged to succumb. Lieutenant Coffin l