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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , May (search)
May 12.
General McClellan, in camp at Roper's Church, Virginia, sent the following despatch to the War Department:
Commander Rodgers writes me to-day that he went with the gunboats yesterday past Little Brandon.
Every thing quiet and no signs of troops crossing the river.
He found two batteries, of ten or twelve guns each, on the south side of James River; one opposite the mouth of the Warwick, the other about south-west from Mulberry Point.
The upper battery, on Hardin's, or Mother Pine's Bluff, has heavy rifled pieces.
Between the batteries lay the Jamestown and Yorktown.
Commander Rodgers offered battle, but the gunboats moved off. He silenced one battery and ran past the other.
Harvey Brown was confirmed as Brevet Brigadier-General in the United States army.
President Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring that the blockade of the ports of Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first of June next, t