The Civil War Years by Robert Denney

Author:Robert Denney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Sterling Signature
Published: 2011-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

APRIL 1 WEDNESDAY

On April 1, as the soldiers and sailors from the USS Commodore Morris prepared to remove 22,000 bushels of grain from Patterson Smith’s plantation on the Ware River in Virginia to the ship, the landing party was attacked by Confederate cavalry. The landing party immediately formed into ranks, the guns from the ship fired on the cavalry, the Union men charged and the Confederates were routed. What grain could not be removed to the ship was burned.

Barber, Cpl., Co. D, 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Memphis, Tenn., wrote:

Our picket duty here required the utmost vigilance. Rank rebels of both sexes, under the guise of peaceful citizens, obtained passes to go beyond the lines. … It was soon discovered that these persons carried on a regular system of smuggling through contraband articles. … Things, calling themselves ladies, were caught with quinine and other articles secreted in their crinolines. Gen. Veatch now issued an order that all ladies of suspicious character should be searched before passing out. …

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