9. Describe the battle.
10. What is said of the fall of New Bern? What fort was next surrendered? Where is Fort Mason?
11. What military movements were made in Virginia?
12. What is said of the gallant charge of the Fifth Regiment at Williamsburg?
13. What regiments are specially mentioned as participants at Winchester and Seven Pines?
14. What is said of the events at this period?
CHAPTER LVII.
THE WAR CONTINUES.
A. D. 1862.
Amid the exultation that filled the hearts of the people of North Carolina for the victories around Richmond, there was grief in many families for heroes fallen in the discharge of duty. Colonels Stokes, Meares, Campbell and C. C. Lee, like a great host of their compatriots, were gone to come no more. It seemed that the superior numbers and resources of the United States forces were to prove powerless before the fiery onsets of the Confederate troops.