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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Eastern North Carolina. (search)
Eastern North Carolina. --An officer of Gen. Ransom's brigade, writing from Kinston, under date of the 17th, says: Everything is very quiet with us now.--There was cannonading below for about two hours this morning, but I suppose it amounted to nothing, as we have heard nothing from it. One of the refugees from Newbern says that his wife was told by the wife of one of the Yankee officers at Newbern that they lost 12 killed and 220 wounded in the fight at Gum Swamp.
The Daily Dispatch: May 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fight near Kinston, N. C. (search)
Fight near Kinston, N. C. A correspondent of the Raleigh State Journal, writing from Kinston, under date of May 23, furnishes the following in reference to the recent attack of the enemy on that point: The Yankees attacked our outpost yesterday on the Dover road, and drove in our pickets to the entrenchments at Gum Swamp. Here the 56th regiment, Col. Faison, was stationed.--This regiment was supported by five or six companies of the 25th, Col. Rutledge. Six or eight companies of the 56th have been cut off, and are supposed to be in the hands of the enemy. Col. Rutledge got the most of his men off; few if any of them were captured. We lost but four killed, but have several wounded. I notices some few of the poor fellows with their limbs amputated. Lieut. Ray, of Capt. Graham's battery, was killed. One section of Starr's battery, and six horses Lieut. Whitmore and twelve men in charge of the gun, were captured. Gen. Ransonm was fired upon by the Yankees in
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
s captured and burnt by the rebels on the 20th inst., while aground at the mouth of the Neuse river. Her captain and crew were taken prisoners. The rebels boarded her in small boats from the shore. It is reported that all the rebel troops in North Carolina, including even the new conscripts, are moving to Virginia. A long correspondence is published, containing an account of the attack of Col. J. R. Jones, of the 8th Pennsylvania volunteers, upon the enemy in their entrenchments at Gum Swamp, in which he captured their artillery ammunition, and over 200 prisoners, completely destroying their works, and for a time dispersing them. They rallied, however, and, following in the rear of our troops, harassed them considerably until they reached their own lines. Here the fire of the enemy became very severe, and, unfortunately, Col. Jones was shot dead behind his own breastworks. The Seward Union Loyal League had a harmonious convention at Utica on the 27th. Several hundred r
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