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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yorktown, Va.,June 14, 1861. (search)
of considerable importance was made. A detachment of 200 infantry, and a howitzer gun, under Major Randolph, and a party of 70 men and another howitzer, under Major Land, of the North Carolina Regiment, started different routes to cut off a party which had left Hampton." The latter part of the sentence above quoted is correct; but the former is not consonant with the facts of the case. When information was received at camp that a marauding party of the enemy were pillaging the house of Mr. Whiting, three and a half miles from Hampton, Col. D. H. Hill, of the North Carolina Regiment, asked for a detachment of 30 infantry to volunteer their services as a support for our howitzer under Major Randolph, and immediately 34 men of Company F, of the North Carolina Regiment, stepped forward, and reported themselves ready for the duty. The Howitzer was under the direction of Major Randolph, the infantry of Lieut. F. N. Roberts, of Company F, and the whole force was commanded by Lieut Col. C
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], [from another correspondent of the Sun.] (search)
ents left on the field, that the supposed enemy was a friend. They had in the meantime fired nine rounds with the small arms and a field piece. The Zouaves hearing the firing, had returned, and fired also upon the Albany boys. At daybreak Col. Allen's and Col. Carr's regiments moved from the rear of the Fortress to support the main body. The mistake at Little Bethel having been ascertained, the buildings were burned, and a Major, with two prominent Secessionists, named Livey and Whiting, made prisoners. The troops then advanced upon Great Bethel in the following order, viz: The Zouaves, Col. Benedix, Lt. Col. Washburn, Col. Allen and Col. Carr. At that point the troops found and successively endeavored to take a large masked Confederate battery. The effort was futile, their three small pieces of artillery not being able to cope with the heavy rilled cannon of the enemy, according to some accounts numbering thirty. The Confederate battery was so completely maske
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Later account, direct from the Fortress — interesting details. (search)
d men and six pieces, a cavalry corps of one hundred, and three hundred riflemen and infantry--five hundred in all. All, save the cavalry, were an advance force from Yorktown, and were engaged in erecting a battery where the engagement took place, to intercept the advance of Butler on Yorktown. About two miles from Great Bethel the forces of Pierce discovered two of the cavalry, which was from Hampton, doing duty as pickets. They succeeded in capturing one of them, who proved to be Captain Whiting, and who is said to have allowed himself to be taken, in order to enable his comrade to escape, to reach the camp, and report the approach of the enemy to Colonel Magruder. His comrade started at full speed to give the alarm, when the pursuers fired several shots at him, and although supposed to be wounded, as he fell upon the neck of his horse, he succeeded in reaching the Confederate camp and enabled Col. Magruder to hastily prepare for battle before his enemy came up. He had pr
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Still Further accounts. (search)
ps of Virginia dragoons who had arranged the pickets in the vicinity of Hampton. A part of the troops from Newport Newspoint mistaking the Federal troops for the Southern forces, at about three o'clock in the morning, opened fire on them, and killed several, besides wounding quite a number. This revealed their approach to the Confederates, and the delay caused by the confusion resulting from the mistake, enabled the Confederates to thoroughly prepare for them. While on the march, Capt. A. Whiting, of Hampton, who was on picket duty, was captured. He is represented to be a splendid specimen of manhood, and his bearing and courage elicited the admiration of the Federal officers. Another picket was discovered and fired on, but he escaped. After order was restored among the Federal troops, they advanced rapidly towards Great Bethel, unconscious of any formidable opposing force. Upon approaching the brink of the narrow creek which separated them from those lying in wait for t