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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The charge of the Light Brigade (search)
izabeth City, No. 5th, to a gentleman residing in Richmond gives some further particulars of Col. Wright's expedition to Chickamacomco and which we are permitted to copy, The additional statement ore of the steamer Fanny is equally intereating. Elizabeth City, N. C.,Oct. 5, 1851. Col. Wright, with the Georgia regiment of Col. Shaw's, amounting in all for fifteen hundred men, went donot stand long enough to fire their pieces — except one,who stopped out and shot, and killed, Col. Wright a horse from under him. He was one of the taken. Our men could have captured every one of thut left them dealt out on the blankets. I presume you must have heard of the prize the Col. Wright took on Monday; 1st inst. It was as follows: Some day or two previous, ten negroes ran off from n's steamers — the "Fanny"--and becabing alaymed, returned to Roanoke and gave information to Col. Wright of the steamer. The Colonel took with him three hundred men, and the steamer Curlew, with on