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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
these water-courses are the Bogue River, at the mouth of which stands the village of Swansboroa, and farther west the New River, which must be ascended for a considerable distance before reaching the village of Jacksonboro or Onslow Court-house. On the 21st of August five or six vessels loaded with troops entered the estuary of the Bogue River; starting from Beaufort, some had steered between the downs and the mainland, while the others had taken the open sea, so as to re-enter by way of Bogue Inlet. Immense salt-pits, an earthwork and some barracks recently occupied were destroyed, and then the expedition returned to Beaufort after having ascertained that the Confederates were not in force in that direction. The abandonment of the James River by the army of the Potomac and Lee's victory at Manassas again emboldened the Confederates in North Carolina. The small regiments which alone had remained in the State received a large addition of volunteers, who, believing the Federal cause