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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
same time, the Federals seized an island almost deserted, flat, sandy, wind-swept, and parched by a tropical sun, but affording excellent anchorage for their squadrons, and an important point for revictualling. This was Ship Island, situated on the coast north of the mouths of the Mississippi, and in continuation of that long chain parallel to the coast to which Santa Rosa belongs. The Confederates, who occupied it and had even made certain establishments on it, abandoned it on the 18th of September, on the approach of a few Federal vessels. It remained at first without an occupant; subsequently, the blockading fleet went there in search of temporary shelter; a detachment of marines was landed and lodged, with supplies, in a fort yet unfinished. Finally, towards the latter part of November a brigade of seventeen or eighteen hundred men from Fort Monroe, under General Phelps, took permanent possession of the island, and the troops were landed in that dismal locality between the 4