At the outbreak of the Civil War the city was abandoned, and the navy yard was burned by the Federals in April 1861; Norfolk was then occupied until the 9th of May 1862 by Virginia troops, first under General William Booth Taliaferro (1822-1898) and later under General Benjamin Huger (1806-1877). [Please select]
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But it served to raise Confederate morale and depress the Federals correspondingly. [Please select]
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Most of the Federals behaved extremely well under these untoward circumstances. [Please select]
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But other Federals were still full of fight and in superior numbers. [Please select]
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The Federals therefore found their enemy alert at every point. [Please select]
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Both sides suffered from straggling, the Confederates as much as the Federals. [Please select]
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The numbers actually engaged--twenty-five hundred Federals against four thousand Confederates--were even smaller than at Kernstown. [Please select]
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