Qualla: Siege of Suffolk https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/siege-of-suffolk-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Suffolk https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk Siege of Suffolk: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. On April 19, 1863, a Union gunboat called the Stepping Stones came down the Nansemond River with its sides covered in canvas. To the Confederate gunners on Hill's Point, it looked like an ordinary attempt to run their battery. With thirty feet still to go to the bank, the boat grounded on an unseen obstruction. The two hundred and seventy infantrymen hidden under the canvas stood fully exposed on the deck. They could either freeze and be slaughtered or jump. Captain Hazard Stevens pushed through the troops and dropped into the water with his rifle held above his head. A hundred soldiers followed him. Ten minutes later they had taken the fort without firing a shot. It is one of the most improbable small-unit actions of the Civil War, and it happened during a siege that history has nearly forgotten.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/siege-of-suffolk-wp/dq99-siege-of-suffolk-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Suffolk: Longstreet's Errand https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Lieutenant General James Longstreet had four objectives when Robert E. Lee placed him in command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina in early 1863: protect Richmond, reinforce the Army of Northern Virginia if needed, gather supplies, and - if possible - capture the U...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/siege-of-suffolk-wp/dq99-siege-of-suffolk-longstreets-errand.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Suffolk: The River Was the Weak Point https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Peck had pulled most of his infantry off the river to thicken his southern lines, leaving the Nansemond mostly to the Navy - two flotillas of gunboats under Lieutenants Roswell Lamson and William B. Cushing. Longstreet's engineers noticed. Confederate batteries went up at the Nor...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/siege-of-suffolk-wp/dq99-siege-of-suffolk-the-stepping-stones-raid.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Suffolk: Lifting the Siege https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. The captured battery did not hold. Getty abandoned Hill's Point on April 21 rather than be cut off, and the Confederates moved back in. Lamson, frustrated, withdrew his gunboats. The standoff continued. On April 24, Michael Corcoran's Union division pushed out of Fort Dix against...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/9/siege-of-suffolk-wp/dq99-siege-of-suffolk-lifting-the-siege.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Suffolk: Aftermath, and Chancellorsville https://qualla.com/siege-of-suffolk/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Longstreet's withdrawal began on May 3, the same day Joe Hooker was fighting Robert E. Lee at Chancellorsville. Hooker had insisted to Peck that Longstreet must have already left; Peck, watching Longstreet's lines from inside Suffolk, knew better. The foraging wagons came back ac...

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