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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Later account, direct from the Fortress — interesting details. (search)
heir batteries. The forces were transported safely over Hampton Creek in barges manned by the Naval Brigade, under supervision of Lieut. Crosby of the frigate Cumberland. The force had proceeded about three miles beyond the creek when they were fired upon by the New York Seventh Regiment, who had marched down from Newport News for the purpose of joining in the expedition. The Seventh was established in a copse of wood, at an angle of the road, and their fire was quite destructive. Sergeant Carey, of Company A, Colonel Townsend's Regiment, was killed. Lieut. Stone, of. the same regiment, a sergeant, and nine privates were wounded, some seriously. The fire was returned, and the Seventh fired one charge of grape from a howitzer, which passed over the heads of the troops of the Third, doing no harm. The precise state of matters was then mutually ascertained, and the forces uniting proceeded toward Little Bethel Church, five miles from Hampton. There they came upon the advance