"The Short Battle of Elizabeth City, NC" Topic
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Tango01  | 10 Feb 2012 12:07 p.m. PST |
Little but interesting combat here.
Seven civil men to manage a fort?. Poor Rebels. They really had a lack of volunteers there. link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Ed Mohrmann | 10 Feb 2012 3:55 p.m. PST |
On a related note, 02/11/2012 marks the opening of the
Museum of the Albemarle's new ACW exhibit, with
artifacts of 13 counties in Northeastern NC, including
items from Roanoke Island (precusor to the Elizabeth City
'battle') and other parts of the region.
museumofthealbemarle.com |
| EJNashIII | 11 Feb 2012 12:47 p.m. PST |
While manpower shortages always plagued the south, this individual problem was the result of the disaster at Roanoke Island. 2,500 rebels had surrender just a few days before. Commodore Lynch was roundly criticized for the debacle. Brig General Wise wrote: "Captain Lynch was energetic, zealous, and active, but he gave too much consequence entirely to his fleet of gunboats, which hindered transportation of piles, lumber, forage, supplies of all kinds, and of troops, by taking away the steam-tugs and converting them into perfectly imbecile gunboats." |
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bases them up.
