. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . n thousandon the side of the Rebels, and seven thousand on that of the victors captured eight six-pounders, and two Parrott guns, one hun-dred wagons, twelve hundred horses and mules, a thousand muskets, anda large amount of provisions. The loss of the enemy was a hundred andfourteen killed, and probably six hundred wounded. The Federal losswas forty killed, a hundred and twenty-seven wounded. The conse-quences of this triumph were important. Beside inspiriting the wholenation with pa
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . n thousandon the side of the Rebels, and seven thousand on that of the victors captured eight six-pounders, and two Parrott guns, one hun-dred wagons, twelve hundred horses and mules, a thousand muskets, anda large amount of provisions. The loss of the enemy was a hundred andfourteen killed, and probably six hundred wounded. The Federal losswas forty killed, a hundred and twenty-seven wounded. The conse-quences of this triumph were important. Beside inspiriting the wholenation with patriotic exultation, it opened the passes to the Cumberlandmountains, which led to the valley of the Tennessee river, thereby givingaccess to the territory of North Carolina from the west. It thus assistedin completing that chain of military bands with which the Federal Gov-ernment was gradually girding the limits of the Rebel Confederacy, withthe intent that, at the proper and critical moment, it might, by onepowerful and resistless constriction, crush out of it the last remains ofvitality. /. G e m © 5= DEPARTURE OP THE BDRNSIDE EXPEDITION. 181 CHAPTER XVI. THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION—ITS STRENGTH AND SECRET DESTINATION—ITS DEPARTUREFROM ANNAPOLIS—IT BEACHES FORTRESS MONROE—ANOTHER GALE OFF CAPE HAT-TERAS—ITS RESULTS—LOSS OF THE STEAMER CITY OF NEW YORK—HEROISM OFGENERAL BURNSIDE—THE EXPEDITION ENTERS PAMLICO SOUND—IT STEERS FOR ROANOKEISLAND—REBEL WORKS ERECTED ON THAT ISLAND—THE FEDERAL TROOPS DISEMBARK—PLAN OF THE ATTACK—INCIDENTS OF THE ENGAGEMENT—THE FINAL CHARGE—DEFEATAND FLIGHT OF THE REBELS—CAPTURE OF THEIR FORTS—THEIR STRENGTH—RESULTS OFTHE VICTORY—DEATH OF COLONEL DE MONTREUIL—SKETCH OF GENERAL BURNSIDE—ATTACKON FOET HENRY—STRENGTH OF THE FOET—NUMBER OF THE FEDERAL GUNBOATS—INCI-DENTS OF THE BOMBARDMENT^—SURRENDER OF THE REBEL WORKS—TROPHIES OF THEVICTORY—LOSS ON BOTH SIDES—SKILL AND HEROISM OF COMMODORE FOOTE—SK
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