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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
most important object of this seizure will, however, be the threatening of Norfolk, and, if it is thought advisable to follow up the advantage, the thinking of the rebel army at Norfolk. A movement securing Pamilco and albemarle Sounds, and thus commanding, the great Albemarle and Chesapeake Capal and the Dismal Swamp Canal, would command the adjunct canal known as the Jericho Canal, connecting, through Lake Drummond, with an important railroad junction at a town called Suffolk, on the Nansemond river, where the main railroad route from Norfolk branches into what are called the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, thus completely cutting off all connection by rail or water between Norfolk and its surrounding country and the other parts of the rebel regions. The strategic importance of such a movement, if successfully made, will form one of the most important features of the war. The island is a position which is valuable to us, commanding, as it doe