...arters were at Norfolk. Owing to the illness of .General Wise, who was at Nag's head, on a narrow strip of sand lying between Roanoke Sound and the sea, that stretches down from the main far above, Colonel H. M. Shaw , of the Eighth North Carolina regiment, was in chief command of the forces on the Island. These consisted of his own regiment; the Thirty-first North Carolina Volunteers, under Colonel J. V. Jordan...