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_, pt. I. P. 960; pt. Ii. Pp. 492, 493. ] Ferrying the unfordable stream, Hagood's brigade wasattacked and routed on the 20th, capturing two cannon and nearly 400prisoners, including Colonel Simonton the commandant, Hagood himselfhaving gone to Wilmington. [Footnote: _Id. _, pp. 495, 509. ] On the21st we pressed on to Brunswick Ferry, and saved part of the pontoonbridge there which the enemy had not been able to destroycompletely. An advance-guard was got over on Eagle Island, the largeswampy i...sland lying in front of Wilmington, where the remnant ofHagood's brigade held the narrow causeway. Bragg had been toRichmond on an official visit, but was back at Wilmington and sawthat the time to evacuate had come. The naval stores were set onfare, and the dense black pillars of smoke from the warehouses ofresin and turpentine told us the story. [Footnote: _Id. _, pp. 1241-1245. ] My route from Town Creek around Mcllhenny's mill-pond to BrunswickFerry had taken me some three miles back from the river, and thebroad swamps and rice-fields intervening made communication withGeneral Schofield on the "Spaulding, " very slow and difficult.
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