Discovery of a Confederate Battery at Messech's Point
| View Cart ⇗ | Info
The activity of the Confederates on the Potomac and the confluent rivers was almost incredible. In one night some point hitherto defenseless was made to bristle with cannon, and the first intimation of its locality was a leaden messenger winging its way on its mission of death. A party of the Tenth Regiment of New York Zuoaves, while out scouting through a dense wood, came suddenly in sight of Messech’s Point, and there beheld the Confederates at work upon an almost completed battery, which had sprung up with magical rapidity.
Keywords
soldier, Civil War, spy, Potomac River, sailboat, forest, boat, soldiers, scouting mission, secrecy, spying, spiesSource
Frank Leslie Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896)
Downloads
2400×1549, 3.6 MiB
1024×660, 306.2 KiB
640×413, 124.9 KiB
320×206, 33.7 KiB