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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)
d. was not long in making the assailants beat a retreat. Following the execution of this plan, Hill, who was striving to magnify the number of his soldiers in the eyes of his adversaries, conveyed them from the banks of the Neuse to those of Tar River; on the 30th of March he came with one division to invest the small town of Washington, which the Federals had converted into a depot for supplies for the fleet, and which was surrounded by a belt of redoubts and half-bastions. This place, situated on the left bank of the Tar, was occupied by a small garrison; two gunboats were at anchor in the river. While the Confederate infantry were occupying some old works which had been erected the previous year when this same town had been attacked, considerable detachments with a powerful artillery force took position on the opposite side of the river, carried off the buoys which indicated the course of the channel, and thus succeeded in blockading the garrison. At the first news of the a