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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in North Carolina . (search)
The Yankees in North Carolina.
--The Kinston, N. C., correspondent of the Raleigh Journal, writing on the 9th inst., gives the following statements of a deserter from a New York regiment, at Newbern:
The troops in Newbern, at this time, will number about five thousand strong, three thousand whites and two thousand blacks, mostly infantry and artillery, not more than five hundred cavalry, and about four hundred marines, with not exceeding three thousand men all told, fit for duty.
The small pox is raging there amongst the soldiers and citizens (the negroes especially) to the most furious extent, and from fifty to sixty negroes die daily (say nothing of the whites) from this disease.
The enemy are engaged at this time in organizing a regiment of negro cavalrymen, and when completed are to be styled "the Black Horse mounted men"
One small regiment of infantry, numbering about 500 men, known by the Yankees as the 2d N. C. troops, made up of deserters chiefly fr