...ents to get to me from the North, and thus against all the efforts possible to shut off troops from the capital. I then came to the conclusion to hold the town, and did so, and from that time forth Annapolis was in the hands of the Union side. Early on the morning of Sunday the 21st, I breakfasted at headquarters with Commodore and Mrs. Blake, and their son, who was then an officer in the United Stat...