A Mr. O. Hendricks, very lately of the U. S. Coast Survey,
has returned from a tour of the coast of North Carolina, and has been
commissioned a lieutenant by the Secretary of War. He says Burnside will take
Roanoke Island, and that Wise and all his men will be captured. It is a man-trap.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 105
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