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The Daily Dispatch: may 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
omac arrived here yesterday afternoon, under command of Gen. Franklin, and by dark most of the troops were landed on a beautiful plain, whith is surrounded on three sides by dense woods and on the fourth by the river, on the south side of the Pamunkey river, and about half a mile southward from West Point. The reason why we landed here is obvious. Had we landed on the other side of the river — West Point — where it was at first intended we should land, we should then have had a considerable stwas no foe. About dusk a part of the division of General Sedgwick, under the command of General Dana, arrived in transports from Yorktown and remained in the centre of the river, while some of our light draught gunboats took a trip up the rivers Pamunkey and Mataponi to capture a portion of the rebel mosquito fleet, which were brought into use for carrying our men from the transports to the shore, as the river here is too shallow for vessels drawing over six feet of water. During the night