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Newbern, capture of
After the capture of Roanoke Island (q. v.), the National forces made other important movements on the coast of State of North Carolina (q. v.). Goldsborough having been ordered to Fort Monroe, the fleet was left in command of Commodore Rowan. General Burnside, assisted by Generals Reno.
Foster, and Parke, at the head of 15,000 troops, proceeded against Newbern, on the Neuse River.
They appeared with the fleet in that stream, about 18 miles below the city, on the evening of March 12, 1862, and early the next morning the troops were landed and marched against the defences of the place.
The Confederates, under General Branch, were inferior in numbers, but were strongly intrenched.
The march of the Nationals was made in a drenching rain, the troops dragging heavy cannon after them through the wet clay, into which men sometimes sank knee-deep.
At sunset the head of the Nationals was halted and bivouacked within a mile and a half of the Confederate works, and d