Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Tar river” in chapter 12 of D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina:

...nd behaved very well. A raiding party under Gen. E. E. Potter, in July, inflicted much damage on some of the towns in eastern North Carolina. At Rocky Mount this force destroyed the bridge over Tar river , and also mills, depots, factories, and large quantities of flour and 800 bales of cotton; at Tarboro some Confederate gunboats in process of construction were burned; at other places similar damage...
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Tar river (Georgia, United States) 14 2 0 0 0 user votes
Tar River (North Carolina, United States) 88 0 0 0 0 user votes

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