...as fast as their tired legs would carry them to Hatteras, which they succeeded in reaching. Could our troops have landed, the whole regiment would have been taken, as they had run twenty-two miles. Col. Solomon Cherry , of this city, who went ahead of our troops in a boat, for the purpose of sounding, got within musket shot of the pickets from Hatteras, who ran off, apparently much alarmed at his approach. Having...