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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)
e he had espoused, was continually on the alert, and he soon learned from a contraband, named George Scott, that the insurgents had fortified outposts at Great and Little Bethel (the names of two chures), on the road between Yorktown and Hampton, and only a few miles from the latter place. With Scott as guide, Winthrop reconnoitered these positions, and was satisfied that Magruder was preparing in New Orleans, page 142. In that plan Winthrop put down, among other items, the following:--George Scott to have a shooting-iron. --So, says Parton, the first suggestion of arming a black man in this war came from Theodore Winthrop. George Scott had a shooting-iron. In one of his last letters to a friend, Winthrop wrote:--If I come back safe, I will send you my notes of the plan of attack, J)aening on each flank into a morass, much of the time impassable, according to the testimony of George Scott, the negro guide. They had erected a strong earthwork on each side of the road, which comman