Gen. Wise, whose headquarters are to be fixed at Nag's Head
on the beach near Roanoke Island, reports that the force he commands is
altogether inadequate to defend the position. Burnside is said to have 20,000
men, besides a numerous fleet of gun-boats; and Gen. Wise has but 3000
effective men.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 104
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