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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
and the borders of the discharging-channel, having posted a detachment of cavalry at South Mills, south of the Dismal Swamp, in order to cover the road, which, passing around the swamp on this side, would have enabled the enemy to reach Norfolk by turning his position. The Federal navy was represented in the waters of Suffolk only by a river-boat The Mount Washington, Lieutenant R. H. Lamson.—Ed. carrying a battery of light howitzers, and by two small vessels The West End and the Smith Briggs.—Ed. hired by the agents of the War Department. But Admiral Lee immediately sent to their assistance all the vessels that were then in the harbor of Newport News whose small draught enabled them to get over the shallows of the Nansemond. On the evening of the 12th the naval forces assembled on this river numbered two vessels below the bar of Hill's Point and six above; four others were to follow in quick succession. It is true that they were too lightly built to resist the enemy's arti