Friday, April 12, 2013

First Action at Suffolk

Sunday, April 12, 1863

The Thirteenth New Hampshire was hard at work digging ditches and earthworks in preparation for a siege by Confederate forces under General James Longstreet. Today the Ninth Corps formed a line of battle along the Nansemond River, nearly three miles south of Suffolk. The Confederates were entrenched in a large force near the Petersburg Railroad to protect their supply lines. The Thirteenth New Hampshire spent the evening on picket duty and the regiment was at arms during the night.1

References:
1S. Millett Thompson, Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 : A Diary Covering Three Years and a Day (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 123-27.

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