The Battle of Roanoke Island (North Carolina): After two days of fighting, Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside, commanding the compulsory Union Department of North Carolina, defeats Wise’s Legion, commanded by Confederate (a voluntary union) Brigadier General Henry A. Wise.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 168.
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