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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)
the rest, under Colonel Martin, consisted of the Seventh North Carolina regiment. The entire control of the maritime defences of the State was entrusted to Commodore Barron. These three commanders did not agree; the soldiers were inexperienced, the artillery of too small a calibre, and poorly supplied; for the want of fuses to nd especially to the troops disembarked on that gloomy shore. Fortunately for the latter, the Confederates themselves were in a great state of confusion. Commodore Barron had arrived with insignificant reinforcements; a vessel which was to have brought a regiment from Newbern had not made her appearance. The power of the project, might at any moment interrupt the attack and deliver into their hands Weber's three hundred Federals. Notwithstanding all these chances in their favor, Commodore Barron, at eleven o'clock, hoisted the white flag. Cut off by Fort Clark from all communication with the land, he had no means of escape left. More than seven hun