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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Puritan Consistency. (search)
General News items.
Below we give what could be gathered from the columns of our Northern flies:
Terrible storm on the North Carolina coast — soldiers' Clothing destroyed. Fortress Monroe, Nov. 5.
--The steamer S. R. Spaulding has just returned from Hatteras Inlet, bringing Colonel Hawkins, who proceeds to Washington in a special boat upon business connected with his post.
The storm at Hatteras Inlet was very severe, and the recent high tides have completely overflown the space outside the fort; and, as a new channel is forming between the forts, and, as a new channel is forming between the forts, it is apprehended that they may become untenable.
About a quarter of the much needed clothing for the Twentieth Indiana Regiment had been landed from the S. R. Spaulding on Friday night, when the gale came on with tremendous severity, and it was washed away.
Some other stores were also landed and lost.
Yesterday ten days rations for the post were safely lande
Historic Reminiscence of Yorktown.
It was on the 10th day of June, 1861, I fell asleep and dreamed that my husband was taken prisoner by the Yankees; just then my husband touched me and awoke me, at first dawn of day, by telling me that we could return home to Hampton that day, as he had been told that North Carolina troops were on the road, and we would follow in the rear to get some provisions.
He dressed and left the room, and as soon as I could I followed him, but was surprised when I reached the yard to find myself surrounded by the Yankee soldiers from Newport News, with a guard placed round the house.
I asked them to tell me who they were, and they replied that they were the troops from Newport News.
Well, then, I was very much alarmed on not seeing my husband, and made my way through the crowd in pursuit of him, and when I found him he was surrounded with about thirty tall men, dressed in red pants and caps.
I flew, unconscious of my danger, and called aloud to let hi