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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
mprovised officers. On the 14th of January the steamer Columbia was wrecked near Masonboroa Inlet on the coast of North Carolina; notwithstanding the efforts of a vessel Two, the Penobscot and the Cambridge.—Ed. sent to her assistance, she was destroyed by the enemy and her crew taken prisoners. On the 23d of February two Union ships, The Dacotah and the Monticello.—Ed. having attempted to attack a blockade-runner at the entrance of Cape Fear River, were driven back by the fire of Fort Caswell, an old Federal work which defended its entrance. At the approach of the mild season, from the middle of March, the Confederates determined to employ the forces assembled in those latitudes for an offensive campaign. They proposed to confine themselves no longer to the task of simply harassing the Federals and shutting them up in their positions, but to recapture all those positions from them. Longstreet was to direct their main effort against Suffolk, the fall of which would involv