This fleet, meanwhile, had gone southwardly, pursuing the object of its former quest up the waters of the Combahee.
Leslie then resorted to force to obtain supplies; and late in August he sent an expedition up the Combahee for the purpose.
Mr Walter Blake arrived soon after dinner; he had come up from his plantation on the Combahee river on purpose to see me.
Mr Robertson was full of the disasters which had resulted from a recent Yankee raid of the Combahee river.
He overtook the brigade on the north bank of the Combahee river, near the ferry.