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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 56 (search)
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54.-destruction of Winton, N. C.
A correspondent gives the following account of this affair:
United States steamer Delaware, off Winton, N. C., Feb. 21, 1862.
On the morning of the nineteenth inst., the flotilla, under the command of Com. S. C. Rowan, set out from Edenton for a reconnaissance of the Chowan River as far as Winton, and the Roanoke River as far as Plymouth.
The first detachment, under C gle white man, however, was to be seen until within twenty miles of Winton, when a party of fifteen horsemen, apparently reconnoitring, was di ally as we learned at Elizabeth City that five hundred Union men at Winton had raised the Stars and Stripes and desired protection, which we w room enough to turn in. When about opposite to the landing-place at Winton, Col. Hawkins, who was upon the lookout at our maintop, sung out th for his bravery at Roanoke Island,) took possession of the town of Winton, situated some half a mile back from the landing.
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