Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Suffolk” in chapter 16, page 366 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...ing his movement across the Rappahannock, Longstreet, with a large force, was aiming a similar blow at the extreme left of our position in Virginia; where Gen. John J. Peck held the little village of Suffolk , with a force ultimately increased to 14,000 men, aided by three gunboats on the Blackwater.
Suffolk being an important railroad junction, covering the landward approaches
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