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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
ships reached their destination and crowded the harbor, General Burnside says, We were ready to wish that the fleet were not so large. In command of the land forces, General Burnside was assisted by Generals Reno, Foster and Parke. Admiral Goldsborough, with Commodore Rowan as second, commanded the naval forces. This fleet sailed from Fortress Monroe on the 11th of January, 1862, but, owing to having to widen the channels near Hatteras, did not arrive before Roanoke island until the 7th of February. In spite of the fact that this formidable invading force was known to be designing an attack somewhere on this coast, and in spite of the further fact that Roanoke was the key to the whole sound region, it seemed out of the power of the Confederacy to provide it with defenses commensurate with its importance, or to spare it enough troops to hold its insignificant fortifications. General Gatlin had said in answer to a request for more troops, The place is of so much importance that