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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)
in between the sea and Pensacola Bay, is only one kilometre wide. If the superior officers may be judged by the boastful extravagance of their reports, that regiment must have been very badly commanded. At all events, their encampment was very carelessly guarded. The Confederates knew this, and they determined to take advantage of it to attempt a coup-de-main, which they would never have thought of if they had had to deal with well-disciplined troops. During the night of October 8th and 9th, General Anderson brought from Pensacola, in steamers and large boats, twelve or thirteen hundred men, whom he landed five kilometres east of the Federal camp fronting the centre of the bay. The sand-hills of Santa Rosa island stretch out in that locality, and afforded him a more favorable ground for deploying his troops. As soon as they were landed he formed them into three columns, which advanced in silence, capturing the Federal sentinels, who were posted too near their camp. An instant