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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 227 (search)
How Burnside found A Landing.--F. B. Remington, a private of company A, Thirtieth New-York regiment, stationed at Upton's Hill, reached there with a pass from Gen. Burnside, whom he had previously joined by deserting from the rebel fleet stationed in Albemarle Sound.
Remington was captured by the rebels during a reconnoissance near Fairfax, and taken to Richmond, and thence sent to prison in North-Carolina.
There he saw extracts published from the Troy papers, where the Thirtieth regiment was mostly recruited, stating that he was disloyal, having deserted his comrades, and had gone over to the rebels.
Determined to resent this imputation on his name, he managed to escape from Portsmouth, N. C., and made his way to Norfolk; but failing to get further North, he returned to North-Carolina, and was offered employment on the rebel gunboat Fanny, which he was forced to accept, and was employed in surveying inland waters for the rebels.
In connection with another loyal man he obtained