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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
ch it then became detached, and afterwards formed part of the Twelfth. War History of the First Virginia, p. 7. On the other side, General Scott had charged Colonel H. G. Wright, United States Engineer Corps, with securing if possible the navy yard and property at Portsmouth, with the ships of war then in the harbor, and for that purpose authorized him to call on the commanding officer at Fort Monroe for such forces as he could spare without jeopardizing the safety of the fort. With Colonel Wardrop's regiment, about three hundred and seventy strong, Colonel Wright proceeded to Norfolk, where they arrived some time after dark on the evening of the 20th. But on reaching the navy yard, Colonel Wright found that Commodore McCauley, to prevent their seizure by the Virginia forces, had scuttled all the ships except the Cumberland, and Commodore Paulding, who had come on the Pawnee from Washington, determined to finish the destruction of the scuttled ships and to destroy also, as far as