Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Governor Vance” in article 2 of The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
... at from 40,000 to 60,000.
Last week a number of gunboats ascended the Neuse river four miles above the mouth of Big Swift Creek, but returned without doing say injury.
A dispatch was received by Governor Vance on Sunday that the enemy had begun to move towards Wilmington.
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