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The Siege is Lifted
Late in the afternoon of Thursday, April 30, 1863, Gen. James Longstreet received a message he had been ...
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Another Costly Day
Three days had passed since Confederate Gen. James Longstreet had received orders to withdraw his force of 20,000 ...
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Costly Information
From the beginning of the Suffolk Campaign, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet had been working under several constraints.
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A break in the fighting
Except for the deadly clashes with the enemy, Civil War soldiers lived a pretty dull life. As a ...
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Friends and Foes
In Suffolk, just as in other theaters of the war, one of the difficulties faced by the officers ...
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Refugees fill ‘Union Town’
In Suffolk's Kingsboro neighborhood by the Nansemond River, there stood an interesting settlement known as "Union Town," "Greeley ...
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Letters from the Siege
The study of history is sometimes regarded as little more than a memorization of events and the times ...
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Recriminations and a duel
The loss of Fort Huger on April 19, 1863, was a bitter pill for the Confederates to swallow. ...
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Surprise attack!
Five days ago, Union gunboats had been pounded by Confederate shore batteries as they traveled up and down ...
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Dodging bullets
By this time it had become clear that a coordinated all-out attack to capture Suffolk was not part ...
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