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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 84 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 54 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 41 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 36 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 36 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 32 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 24 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 22 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 20 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) or search for Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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y cannonading heard down the river. This cannonading, however, proved to be of trifling importance. The batteries at Aquia Creek opened on the fleet, apparently to test their range, doing no other damage than slightly cutting the rigging of the Poon the Columbia, we learn that a battery was distinctly visible at Mathias' Point. The Federal flotilla which visited Aquia Creek for the purpose of discovering a masked battery, was very successful in its mission. When within a mile of a point wh the flotilla. [from the Northern Associated Press.] Washington, Aug. 17. --We have another arrival from Aquia Creek to day. Yesterday a new battery, concealed in the woods, opened on the United States steamer Pocahontas with rifled cas at the Navy-Yard with a confidence which tempted them to announce to their friends, very positively, on Friday, that Aquia Creek and Mathias' Point had been taken beyond a peradventure, and that their batteries were actually in the possession of t
Naval movements. Washington. Aug. 20. --All vessels abroad have been ordered home. The Potomac flotilla is being largely reinforced. A large fleet is now lying out in the Potomac beyond the reach of the Confederate batteries, and command the river from Aquia creek to the Potomac creek.