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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside expedition — warm work Expected in North Carolina--the weather — cistern water scarce, &c. (search)
The Burnside expedition — warm work Expected in North Carolina--the weather — cistern water scarce, &c. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk 6th Jan, 1852. It was reported here last night, and generally believed, that Burnside's expedition has gone into Pamlico Sound. It was stated that the fleet consisted of twenty gun-boats of light draft, and carrying five guns each.--The Confederate troops at Roanoke Island are said to be preparing actively for a battle. Should this be really the fact, relative to the Yankee expedition, which has been for so long a time preparing for a landing somewhere on the Southern coast, the fiest must have come very stealthlly down the Chesspeake, and observed great cantion in getting outside the Capes, without being discovered by the watchful eye of the Confederate Coast Guard. They have really entered the wide and shallow waters of the Pamlico Sound, and of course an attempt will soon be made to effect a landing, and in a d