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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
t Butler had left there. Nor did they stop there, for they had only taken possession of an entrance into the inland sea, into which they had the utmost interest in penetrating, and it was important, above all, not to leave the other in the hands of the enemy, who yet occupied two of them. These two entrances, opening in the tongue of sand which envelops Pamlico Sound, are the Ocracoke Inlet, south of Hatteras; and more to the northward, the three contiguous estuaries called Oregon Inlet, New Inlet, and Loggerhead Inlet, situated near the island of Roanoke. At Ocracoke the Confederates had erected a large earthwork, which they were busy in arming. On the 17th of September the guard-boat Fanny was sent to destroy it; finding that it had been abandoned, all she had to do was to dismantle it and throw its heavy guns into the sea. Nothing remained to be done but to close the northern inlets, but this was a more difficult task, for the Confederates had placed a strong garrison on the i