Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Maj.-Gen. William B. Taliaferro” in chapter 8 of Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia:
...oops of war, 1 brig and the steam frigate Merrimac, and some 780 marines and other armed men.
On the 18th of April, Governor Letcher called out the militia of Norfolk and vicinity, and dispatched Maj.-Gen. William B. Taliaferro to take command of the same and endeavor, by a rapid movement, to secure the navy yard.
After having done this he asked Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, to immediately send 2,000 troops to Norf...
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