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Title: Bearing arms in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Derby, W. P. (William P.)
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 27th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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, when suddenly called to other scenesof duty, and he now desires to pay a high and well-deservedtribute to their discipline, their patience and their courage. In thetrying scenes at Hatteras Inlet and on the battle-fields of NorthCarolina, these soldiers virtues were fully shown, and he now partsfrom them as from well-tried friends who have always proved trueto their leaders and to their country, and on whom in any emer-gency he could always rely. By command of Major-General Burnside.Lewis Richmond, Asst. Adjt-Genl. It was his expectation, at the time of his departure, toreturn to North Carolina as soon as the military situation inVirginia should allow. The Department of North Carolina never fulfilled theoriginal plan as conceived by Genl Burnside. He urgedthat a sufficient force be thrown iuto this State so that°anadvance might be made on Richmond via Weldon, trans-ferring the base to the James River as soon as practicable.Also that an effective army in North Carolina should inter-
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-■.■■ ■ >i-~-- .-*-*-t» . > . \<-- \ \ ■:-j ./; GEX. BURXSIDES PLANS. H7 ccpt and hold the lines of railroad, and bv cutting off theirsupplies, oblige the insurgents to abandon Virginia. TheBermuda Hundreds movement of 1864, made under GenlGrants approval, was little more than the accomplishingof Burnsides original plan, which had been disapprovedof by Gen 1 MeClellan. It was intended that North Carolinashould be the scene of aggressive operations, but, fromlack of sufficient force, it became simply a line of menaceand observation. Even -the march to the sea. by Gen 1Mierman, was only a grander conception than that of GenlBurnside, who desired such forces accumulated atKnoxvilleTeiiu., under Genl Buell, and at Xew Berne, X. C, underhimself, as would enable them to march conjointly onRaleigh, and, by intercepting all sources of supply to theenemy, transfer the contest to Xorth Carolina. There canbe no doubt, however, that it was better that the rebelarmy should be h

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