Feb. 3, 1865-- Part 3: Protecting Schofield's Troops on the Way to the Wilmington Attack

FEBRUARY 3RD, 1865:  From City Point, Virginia, General Grant requested the Navy to keep two or three vessels patrolling between Cape Henry and the Cape Fear River during the transit of General Schofield's XXIII Army Corps.

The Corps was embarking from Annapolis, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia, for North Carolina participate in the attack on Wilmington.

"It is barely possible,"  Grant wrote, "for one of the enemy;'s privateers to be met on that route and do us great injury."

Two steamers were stationed as requested to protect the troops transports.

--Old B-Runner