"Another “Truman Seymour plan”: Close Cape Fear soon!" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Nov 2013 10:09 p.m. PST |
"In an earlier blog post, we saw his proposal to disable the Confederate rail system by advancing behind Charleston. A few weeks later, Seymour and Captain C.B. Reese, an engineer, conducted a reconnaissance of the Wilmington, North Carolina area. Of course Wilmington was a bit outside of Major-General Quincy Gillmore's Department of the South. But only a bit. So reaching just outside his "sandbox" Gillmore sent Seymour to investigate the approaches to the Cape Fear River on November 13-14, 1863. Seymour not only provided the required assessment, but also a detailed, color map:
Seymour started the assessment with a description of Confederate defenses. Starting with the Old Inlet, or what he called "the southern entrance," Seymour noted Fort Caswell, an unnamed fort he simply called "A," and another set of works on Bald Head of Smith's Island.
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