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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Skirmish at Orange Court-House . (search)
North Carolina Election for Governor. Raleigh, Aug. 2.
--The following returns are in by this evening's train from three different sources: Second regiment N. C. T.--Johnson, 175; Vance, 47; third--Johnson; 321; Vance, 60; fourth--Johnson, 69; Vance, 196; and — Johnson, 115; Vance, 3; twelfth--Johnson, 149; Vance, 23; thirteenth--Johnson, 114; Vance, 34; fourteenth--Johnson, 42; Vance, 200; twentieth--Johnson, 198;Vance, 103, thirtieth--Johnson, 211; Vance, 54.
Skirmish in North Carolina.
--On the 27th ult., a Federal force of 500 infantry, with cavalry and artillery, attempted to cross White Oak river, in Onslow county, N. C. They were met by 125 of our cavalry, commanded by Capt. E. D. Ward.
The Wilmington Journal says:
The fight lasted about three hours, when Captain Ward fell back a short distance out of the range of their artillery.
They continued to shell the woods until near dark, when they fell back.
In the engagement we had one man, Sergeant Williams, of the Gatlin Dragoons, wounded in both legs, and one horse wounded by the bursting of a shell.
Captain Ward learns from citizens along the line of the enemy's retreat, that we killed two dead on the spot, wounded eleven badly, and several more slightly.--Among those badly was their Colonel, who was shot from his horse.
They curse our "two-barrelled cavalry," and say they want shot guns, too. They fell back about seven miles, to Mrs. Bryan's, where they met more of thei
Address of Gen. D. H. Hill.
Gen. D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, having been assigned to the command of the Confederate forces in the territory extending from Drewry's Bluff to Wilmington, N. C., issued the following address to his late division on taking his departure:
Headquarters of division.July 21, 1862.
General Orders, No.--
In pursuance of orders from the headquarters of the Army, the undersigned relinquishes the present command, to enter upon a new field of duty.--It is with unfeigned pain and reluctance he leaves a division which, in the last two months, has poured out more blood in the sacred cause of the South than any division in the army — which alone, and unsupported, drove the enemy from his abattis, fortifications, and rifle-pits at Seven Pines, capturing eight guns, the camp and stores of the enemy; and which at Mechanicville, Coal Harbor, White Oak River, and Malvern Hill, exhibited all those high and heroic qualities for which the Southern soldier i