Jan. 9, 1862: Jane Gilbert North, of South Carolina, writes to her cousin William Pettigrew of North Carolina, speculating about the Goldsborough-Burnside expedition: "I am not a little concerned in thinking of the dangers that that threaten your coast – as well as our own – should your defences at Roanoke Island prove as ineffectual as ours at Port Royal, it will be dreadful indeed – for thro’ Albermarle & the Chowan River, the way is easy to Norfolk & Weldon by railway – so that I truly hope those Batteries may proved worthy of more confidence than ours were – and Genl Wise in command! I repeat what I have said from the first, God help us."
–In Annapolis, the Burnside-Goldsborough expedition fleet finally sails south for Fort Monroe.
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