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ture the batteries and the men who manned them. Their repeated requests were peremptorily refused by the Commander-in-Chief. The plan of the Hatteras expedition contemplated nothing more than the destruction of the forts and sinking obstructions in the channel, and the occupation of the forts was a wise transcending of instructions. In this Gen. McClellan may, perhaps, have had no responsibility. But the instructions for the Burnside expedition were substantially his, and by them Gen. Burnside was limited to perfecting the blockade, and prevented from striking at vital points and cutting important lines of railroad. Over all this the country wondered, believed, and waited. We know that, beginning more than five months ago, Gen. Wool and the Navy Department joined in urgent and repeated applications to be allowed to take Norfolk, which they demonstrated to be a military and naval certainty. Besides its immense importance otherwise, the Merrimac would have been taken whil