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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock, (search)
The evacuation of Norfolk.official history of the Affair. Major-General Huger publishes the following letters by authority of the War-Department. The permission was granted, as he states in a published letter preceding them, "as a means of refuting the calumnious falsehoods circulated by designing persons" to induce the public to believe that he abandoned Norfolk. We publish the letters as the history of a very important movement of the war: Headq'rs Department of Norfolk, April 29, 1862. Gen. R. E. Lee, Commanding, &c.,General. --1 yesterday received a letter from General J. E. Johnston, informing me the enemy seems preparing to attack. Yorktown with a powerful artillery, and we may be compelled to abandon the Peninsula. He desires me to be prepared for such a contingency. For a week past the enemy has kept a brigade afloat near Elizabeth City, which can move to any position on Chowan river,--This force landed on the night of the 18th, and marched on South