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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
attery. this picture is also from a sketch by Mr. Taylor. It is a view of a three-gun Battery, placed so as to command the approach to the Navy Yard by the Suffolk road. along the river-bank, at the Navy Yard, and other places near; and soon afterward the fortifications in the Slave-labor States were supplied with heavy guns from this post. The gain to the insurgents and loss to the National Government, by this abandonment of the Gosport Navy Yard at that time, was incalculable. William H. Peter, appointed by the Governor of Virginia a commissioner to make an inventory of the property taken from the National Government at this time, said, that he deemed it unnecessary to speak of the vast importance to Virginia, and to the entire South, of the timely acquisition of this extensive naval depot, since the presence at almost every exposed point on the entire Southern coast, and at numerous inland intrenched camps in the several States, of heavy pieces of ordnance, with their equipm