"The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory."

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Ambrose Burnside was an American military officer, Union general in the Civil War, and later a U.S. senator and governor of Rhode Island.

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