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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
eaching Creatan Island, where there was a Confederate battery. On receiving information of the surrender of Roanoke, the officers ordered the destruction of the works, and the small force there left for the main land. Our small party of adventurers also went in one of the boats to a place called Fort Landing, and thence traveled eighteen miles on foot to Columbia, in Tyrrel county, N. C. There they embarked in a schooner, and landed at New Hope, where they procured horses and came on to Suffolk, Va. Our informant says that Capt. Wise was living when he left the island, and he learned from Dr. Coles that he was doing well; but there is still reason to apprehend that his wounds terminated fatally. Capt. Wallace, whom he saw after the battle was over, is unhurt, and also Major Lawson. Lieutenant Miller, he thinks, was wounded in the shoulder early in the engagement, but not dangerously. Mr. Desmond gives a glowing description of the brave and gallant conduct of our men, who c
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
that they have as yet advanced to any point above Edenton. Still later. Petersburg, Feb. 13th. --The editor of the Express has received a letter from Suffolk, dated to-day, which says that Edenton and Heriford have both been captured. Five gunboats moved slowly to the wharf at Edenton on yesterday, at nine o'clock, an citizens raised a white flag. Between three and four thousand Federal troops have landed at Edenton. The population of Edenton is about 2,000, and distant from Suffolk about fifty miles. In the afternoon two gunboats went up the Chowan river towards Winton, and several others towards the mouth of the Roanoke. A gentleman whbeth City. Hertford, the capital of Perquimans county, was taken by the Federals on yesterday. It has a population of about 1,500. Capt. Goodwin, of the Robson (N. C.) Rip Van Winkles, with fifty-two of his men and seven of the Wise Legion, have reached Suffolk. They escaped across the Croatan Sound to the main land.