Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Newbern” in article pos=26 of The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1864., [Electronic resource]:
...Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, twenty-nine miles from Goldsboro', and fifty-five from Wilmington.
It was partially destroyed late in the year 1862 by a party of Yankee raiders who sallied out from Newbern .
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