460 Series I Volume XVIII- Serial 26 - Suffolk
| Page 460 | NORTH CAROLINA AND S. E. VIRGINIA. Chapter XXX. |
SUFFOLK, November 19, 1862.
Major-General DIX:
The cars were running from Petersburg to Zuni all last night, and it is presumed with additions of force. This information has just come in, and I doubt not accounts for the signals. Probably intending to strike here in the absence of one-half of my force, or strike Wessells in the flank. Colonel Dodge is going out toward Zuni to watch any movements.
JOHN J. PECK,
Major-General.
SUFFOLK, November 19, 1862.
Major-General DIX:
A courier is just in from the commander of Winfield, N. C., and of the gunboat there; states 200 rebel infantry crossed Chowan and are threatening the region. Lieutenant Etheridge is near the gunboat with his party and has destroyed their boats. They attacked the camp last night.
Wessells is in with his force.
JOHN J. PECK,
Major-General.
SUFFOLK, November 19, 1862.
Major-General DIX:
The Weldon road is now in complete order to the Nottoway, 5 1\2 miles from Franklin. I have positive information that they are building the bridge across that river.
JOHN J. PECK,
Major-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Fort Monroe, Va., November 19, 1862.Major General H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief:
GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose six telegraphic dispatches from Major-General Peck.*
I wrote to General Foster soon after I saw you in Washington, offering to co-operate with him, and promising at least a demonstration on the Blackwater which might produce a diversion in his favor. I have had no answer from him and have acted on the presumption that my letter never reached him, although in sending expeditions to the Blackwater I have influenced also by the desire to accustom my troops to marching, bivouacking, &c., and to the fire of the enemy.
I inclose a map of the district between Suffolk and the Blackwater, on which a map of the district drawn.+
Will you please let the President see the accompanying telegraphic dispatches, which may throw a little light on my dispatch to him yesterday?
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOHN A. DIX,
Major-General.
---------------
* Probably those of 18th and 19th, pp. 458-460.
+ Not found.
---------------
| Page 460 | NORTH CAROLINA AND S. E. VIRGINIA. Chapter XXX. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments