Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fortress Monroe” in chapter 2, page 44 of Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative:
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Order him to advance very carefully and not to attack.
I had recently read accounts of the affair at Big Bethel, Va., June 10, in which Magruder had repulsed Butler, whose troops fell back to Fortress Monroe in a panic, though entirely unpursued.
I noted two facts: (1) That Magruder's cavalry, which had been ordered to pursue, had allowed itself to be bluffed by Greble's U. S. Battery.
This was entir...
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