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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
the threshold of a new campaign, directed Hooker to resume possession of Malvern Hill; some engineer troops were simultaneously to seize a promontory, called Coggin's Point, on the south side of the James, whence, the day before, D. H. Hill, with about forty pieces of cannon, had kept up a most vigorous although not very damaging fire upon the transports and even the camps of the Federals. Coggin's Point was occupied and strongly entrenched; a position was thus secured which freed the navigation of the James from all impediments, affording, moreover, an excellent tete de pont for any enterprises or diversions that might be attempted south of the river. o conceal this weakening of his forces, he ordered D. H. Hill to make the artillery demonstration which, as we have stated above, decided McClellan to occupy Coggin's Point. So long, however, as Burnside and the fleet of transports, which lay in readiness to ship his troops, remained at the mouth of the James, whence they coul