...blunders, into which inexperienced soldiers were liable to fall. Duryee and his Zouaves left Camp Hamilton at near midnight, preceded by two companies of skirmishers, under Captains Bartlett and Kilpatrick. Hampton Bridge had been so much injured by the fire that it might not be safely crossed in darkness, so the troops were ferried over the creek in surf-boats, after considerable delay. Colonel Townsend's Albany Re...