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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for New Bern (North Carolina, United States) or search for New Bern (North Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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From the North
Federal accounts of recent Fights — interesting particulars.
We have received Northern papers of the 25th of March, which contain the details of news already published in our telegraph column, with other matters of interest:
General summary.
Intelligence has been received that immediately after the occupation of Newbern an expedition was sent to Beaufort, about forty miles south west of that place.
When the expedition arrived it was discovered that the town had been evacuated by the Confederates, who before leaving had destroyed Fort Macon, the defence of the harbor, by blowing it up and burned the steamer Nashville Beaufort is situated at the mouth of Newport river a few miles from the see, and about 11 miles northwest of Cape Fear.
The harbor is considered the best in the State.
The town has about 2,500 inhabitants, and does considerable trade in ship stores, the product of the pine country on the coast.
Fort Macon in situated about t
The man Dibble, who is said to have recently piloted the Yankees in their raid on Newbern, it was stated in yesterday's Dispatch obtained his passport to go North, when in Richmond in November last, at the Passport Office in this city.
This was an error.--He (Dibble) and one Capt. Westervelt (also with the Yankees in their recent excursion) came to Richmond after the expiration of the President's Proclamation (forty days allowance to alien enemies to leave the country,) but were refused passports by Col. Jones, chief of that office.
On the representations of the two creatures to the Secretary of War, backed by the endorsement of sundry softheaded citizens, he granted the scoundrels a special passport to leave the Southern Confederacy.
Things about Newbern.
The following interesting article is from the Wilmington (N. C.) Journa