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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kinston, (search)
Kinston, The county seat of Lenoir, N. C., and an important shipping port for cotton and tobacco. On Dec. 14, 1862, there was an engagement here in which Wessell's brigade of Peck's division and the 1st, 2d, and 3d brigades of the 1st division of the Department of North Carolina took part; and on March 14, 1865, the city was occupied by the National forces under General Schofield.