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Eric | March 14, 2012
March 14, 1862 (Friday) A long month had passed since Union General Ambrose Burnside and his Coast Division had taken Roanoke Island and wiped out the small Confederate “Mosquito Fleet” at Elizabeth City. The town of New Bern was situated thirty-five miles up the Neuse River and was the most important town in the area. [...]
Eric | February 10, 2012
February 10, 1862 (Monday) In the two days since Union General Ambrose Burnside’s victory at Roanoke Island, the small Confederate Mosquito Fleet of converted warships had retreated up the Pasquotank River. Commodore William Lynch, commander of the Rebel ships, hoped to find much-needed ammunition in the town. With little ammunition to be found and an [...]
Eric | February 7, 2012
February 7, 1862 (Friday) The first fingers of dawn slipped over the Atlantic, slowly throwing off the nebulous shroud of fog that thickly clung to Pamlico Sound since the previous morning. Through the wispy remnants, the sailor of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron could see the signal flying from General Ambrose Burnside’s flagship: “Today the [...]
Eric | February 5, 2012
February 5, 1862 (Wednesday) Since we last left General Ambrose Burnside, stranded with his joint fleet off the coast of Cape Hatteras, bobbing and flailing amidst storm after storm, little of his plight had changed until very recently. Of Burnside’s fleet of eighty vessels, several had been lost. The soldiers, huddled and no doubt terrified, [...]
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