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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 21: beginning of the War in Southeastern Virginia. (search)
served, included the old church-yard walls. On these intrenchments the large number of fugitive slaves who had fled to the Union lines were employed. Troops from the North continued to arrive in small numbers, and the spacious building of the Chesapeake Female Seminary, standing on the edge of the water, and overlooking Hampton Roads, was taken possession of and used as a hospital. Chesapeake Female Seminary. Butler began to have hopes of sufficient strength to make some aggressive movChesapeake Female Seminary. Butler began to have hopes of sufficient strength to make some aggressive movements, when the disastrous battle at Bull's Run July 21, 1861. occurred, and blasted them. The General-in-chief drew upon him for so many troops for the defense of Washington that he was compelled to reduce the garrison at Newport-Newce, and to abandon Hampton. The latter movement greatly alarmed the contrabands there, under the protection of the Union flag; and when the regiments moved over Hampton Bridge, during a bright moonlit evening, July 26. these fugitives followed — men women, and