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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)
large depots of grain; on the 30th of the same month a Federal gunboat With fifty men of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts on board.—Ed. entered the waters of the Perquimans River, which runs from the Dismal Swamp into Albemarle Sound, reached the town of Hertford, and destroyed the bridge of a road through which the Confederates drew their supplies from the neighboring districts. In short, on the 4th of March a naval expedition dispersed some partisan bands in the bay of Pungo on the Pamlico River. The role imposed upon the navy was a difficult and dangerous one: it was required to put to sea in all kinds of weather, to navigate along a difficult coast, destitute of lighthouses, frequently occupied by the enemy, and to chase blockade-runners at the risk of striking against sunken reefs. The vessels, for the most part old merchant-ships, were often commanded by improvised officers. On the 14th of January the steamer Columbia was wrecked near Masonboroa Inlet on the coast of No