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clear and definite warning, written to the Secretary of War, July 24, 1863, a year and a half nearly before the attack came, just as he prophesied with his unerring military insight.
He says:
General Whiting gave his heart to the work of the defence o North Carolina.
He had been long and successfully engaged, before the war, in the improvement of the navigation of the Cape Fear, and learned to know and esteem her people.
He had won, as his bride, one of the noble women of the Cape Fear, Miss Kate D. Walker, daughter of Major John Walker, of Smithville and Wilmington.
His estimate of the high-toned people among whom he lived, is seen in the military order published in the winter of 1862 by him, in a period of great anxiety:
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Table of Contents:
War Diary of
Capt.
Robert
Emory
Park
,
Twelfth Alabama Regiment
.
January
28th
,
1863
—
January
27th
,
1864
.
Fragments of war history relating to the coast defence of
South Carolina
,
1861
-‘
65
, and the hasty preparations for the
Battle of Honey Hill
,
November
30
,
1864
.
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