...t has been committed during the war. The letter says: Two hundred men, under command of Captain Frye, were sent to a point near the mouth of the Pasquotank, with orders to scour the country to Currituck Sound . The long train of wagons to accompany the main column was ordered to be in readiness by day light the next morning, and lastly a court martial was convened to try the prisoners in our possession, ...