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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
onse to a call to hasten to the defense of Richmond, then seriously threatened by the armies of the Potomac and the James. See chapter XIII. For several months after this there was quiet in Albemarle Sound, and all along the coast of North Carolina. There were some raids that disturbed the peace of the Confederates in that region during the summer. One of the most formidable of these was made by General Wild, from Roanoke Island, with some colored troops. They penetrated into Camden County well up toward the Dismal Swamp, and after destroying much grain and other property, returned with many horses and cattle, and about twenty-five hundred slaves. Wild lost thirteen men. The conquests made by Burnside, in 1862, had been in some degree recovered by the Confederates, and very little remained to the Nationals excepting Roanoke Island and New Berne. The Albemarle was a bugbear to the blockading vessels; and finally, late in October, Lieutenant William B. Cushing, one of th