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ntly his traitorous flag. The enemy had from six to ten pieces of artillery and from eighteen hundred to two thousand men. We approached to within thirty miles of Norfolk, and undoubtedly the defeat of one of their best regiments, the Third Georgia, produced considerable panic at Norfolk. I have the honor to be, respectfully, J. L. Reno, Commanding Brigadier-General Second Division. Report of Lieut.-Col. Kimball. headquarters, Ninth regiment N. Y. V., Roanoke Island, N. C., April 21, 1862 Colonel: I have the honor to report that in pursuance of your order of the eighteenth inst., I left this camp at eleven o'clock of that day, and proceeded to your headquarters with the Ninth regiment New-York volunteers, numbering an aggregate force of seven hundred and twenty-seven men, with whom I embarked on the transport steamer Ocean Wave. I then proceeded to land my command at the point designated by you, the whole force having to wade middle deep in water in order to reach the
ghtly. Private Cyrus Romain, company H, in the thigh, slightly. Lieut. Leaf, of Col. Bayard's First Pennsylvania cavalry, was the only commissioned officer wounded. In this regiment, there were three killed, and eight wounded. The infantry sustained no loss. A number of men are missing; but as they are coming in from time to time, it is probable all will return. We have no opportunity to estimate the loss of the enemy. Rebel account of the occupation. Fredericksburgh, April 21, 1862. To the Editor of the Richmond Examiner: The report of the advance of the Federal forces reached Fredericksburgh Thursday afternoon. As late as midnight Thursday night, Gen. Field, who was in command of the confederate troops, assured citizens that he did not believe, from the reports brought in by his pickets, that the Yankee force was sufficient to threaten an attack which involved the occupation of the town. The citizens and the civil authorities rested, therefore, hopefully on th