"On our way up the river this morning we were overtaken by three canal boats loaded with troops (which had come from Norfolk, I believe), which followed us up and are now lying along the western shore, the troops having debarked on the side."
He concluded with a request for coal for his warships. happily, two coal schooners from Philadelphia arrived at New Bern that same day and were soon enroute to him.
Coal was a problem all during the war. Without bases for supply on the Confederate coast the Union Navy could not have carried out its ceaseless attacks and blockade.
--Old B-R'er
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