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Fight between Maryland and Massachusetts Yankees.

We have been furnished with an extract of a letter written in Beaufort county, N. C. near Newbern, and dated June 29, 1862, which contains a piece of information which we deem highly important. We give below the extract as furnished us, and think its statements may be relied upon:

‘"I have just heard from Barrington's. A fight occurred in Newbern, in which Massachusetts and Maryland soldiers became involved. A regiment of each became engaged; 300 of the New England men were said to have been killed and 150 of the Marylanders. The disturbance arose about the negroes within the lines there. The Massachusetts men proposed to send a lot of them to Cabe for sale. It was opposed by the Marylanders. Since hearing the above, Mr, F. P. Letham confirms the report."’

The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 4, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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