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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 46 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 34 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 24 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 20 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 14 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 14 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
The enemy gunboats in Roanoke river — a town shelled. The Petersburg Express of yesterday states that passengers who arrived from Weldon Thursday afternoon brought the important intelligence that Hamilton a thriving village on the Roanoke riverRoanoke river in Martin county, N. C., was shelled by three Yankee gunboats day before yesterday, and that the inhabitants were compelled to fly for safety. In accordance with the hitherto barbarous conduct of the war on the part of the Yankees, no notice was ghad just arrived at that point with the intelligence that three gunboats were furiously shelling Hamilton, and as the Roanoke river is quite high they would probably attempt to reach Weldon. We are informed, however, that the water is not so high an called out for purposes of defence. Hamilton is a thriving village of Martin county, on the right bank of the Roanoke river, about ten miles east of Raleigh, and 45 miles from Weldon. It is at the head of navigation for and is noted for
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Arrival of Union troops. (search)
conjectured, of co-operating in the "on to Richmond" movement. The desperate straits to which the "Army of the Potomac" has since been reduced have foiled the plans to ingeniously laid down, and Burnside now seeks to cheer up the drooping spirits of Yankeedom by shelling defenceless towns in North Carolina. Viewed as a demonstration upon Weldon, an important point in our railway connections with the South, this movement may cause some apprehension in the public mind. We are not prepared to say what measures have been taken to prevent the accomplishment of such a scheme, but our information assures us that the necessary preparations for the emergency have not been neglected. If the Yankees are going up Roanoke river in search of "Union sentiment." they will return disappointed, and the expedition will have no other effect than to increase the hatred of the people for a Government sought to be imposed upon them through the medium of a noted entrap of Lincoln by the name of Stanly.