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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc 19 . the siege of Suffolk, Virginia . (search)
Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia.
General John J. Peck's report.
headquarters U. S. Forces, Suffolk, Va., May 5, 1863. Colonel D. T. Van Buren, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of Virginia:
On the twenty-second September, 1862, I was ordered to Suffolk, with about nine thousand men, to repel the advance of Generals Pettigrew and French from the Blackwater, with fifteen thousand men.
No artificial defences were found, nor had any plan been prepared.
Situated at the head of the Nansemond River, with the railway to Petersburg arid Weldon, Suffolk is the key to all the approaches to the mouth of the James River on the north of the Dismal Swamp.
Regarding the James as second only in importance to the Mississippi for the Confederates, and believing that sooner or later they would withdraw their armies from the barren wastes of Northern Virginia to the line of the James, and attempt the recovery of Portsmouth and Norfolk, as ports for their iron-clads and cont