Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . psail inlet openingto the harbor of Beaufort, N. C, and guarded on the southerlyside by Fort Macon. Still further south we discover numerousinlets opposite the counties of Onslow and New Hanover, whenwe reach the mouth of the Cape Fear river, at the head ofwhich stands the important town of Wilmington. Hatteras inlet, where the fleet anchored, was a narrow open-ing reached from the sea by ever changing and irregular chan-nels over a sandy bar which formed a dece
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . psail inlet openingto the harbor of Beaufort, N. C, and guarded on the southerlyside by Fort Macon. Still further south we discover numerousinlets opposite the counties of Onslow and New Hanover, whenwe reach the mouth of the Cape Fear river, at the head ofwhich stands the important town of Wilmington. Hatteras inlet, where the fleet anchored, was a narrow open-ing reached from the sea by ever changing and irregular chan-nels over a sandy bar which formed a deceptive barrier to themost skilled navigator. Inside the inlet is another bar called Bulkhead and rt Swash, through which certain channelspermeated capable of floating light draft vessels, having at hightide a water depth of seven feet one inch. This inlet opened into Pamlico sound [formerly, and prob-ably more properly spelled Pamplico| a large sheet ofwater eighty-six miles long from northeast to southwest, andfrom ten to thirty miles wide. The Pamlico and Neuse riversempty into this sound, the former from the northwest and the.
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