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The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Southern accounts. (search)
this paper an account of the outrages of the Yankees at Elizabeth City and other places in North Carolina. We are now enabled, by the receipt of the Wilmington Journal of Friday last, to lay the following facts before the public. They ought to be sufficient to open the eyes of all to the nature of the enemy to whom we are opposed, and the character of the contest in which we are engaged. If these facts do not show the value of the professions contained in the hypocritical proclamation of Burnside and Goldsborough; if they do not convince all that there are but two alternatives, victory or absolute ruin; if they do not make the blood of every man tingle through his veins, and every heart swell with the desire for revenge, then nothing can. These are the mild-mannered saints, the pet lambs that came to revive the Union feeling in North Carolina, and make proselytes to the sway of Abe Lincoln: The enemy, in their late visit to Onslow county, brought over one regiment, one piece of
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still later. (search)
sion to bury his dead, and saying; "Owing to the heavy reinforcements you received Sunday night and Monday, and the fatigue of my men, I deemed it prudent to retire and not renew the battle." The permission was not granted. The bearer of the flag admitted that General Beauregard received a slight wound in the left arm. Yankee account of Affairs in North Carolina. The recent news of the investment of Fort Macon increases the public desire to learn more of the operations of Burnside's expedition in North Carolina. Though there is very little value in the statements of Yankee correspondents, we append a few extracts from a letter to the New York Herald, dated Newbern, April 10: The rebels still continue to disturb our lines. On Monday last four horse men made a dash upon our pickets near Newport, and carried off one of them prisoner. A body of three hundred cavalry was soon near the place during the day, and it is supposed that the rebels, having partially reco
The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still later. (search)
ed Fredericksburg at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, though they were in force as the opposite side of the river, and it was expected they would advance into the town some time during the day. They were rebuilding the Falmouth bridge, and had it nearly completed. It is further stated that the authorities of Fredericksburg held an interview on Saturday with the Federal commander, under a flag of truce, and that he promised the citizens " protection." It will doubtless be such protection as Burnside's miscreants are giving to the people of North Carolina. The cars from this city went up yesterday as far as Gainney's Depot, twelve miles from Fredericksburg. The track of the railroad has not been torn up. Only two steamers were burnt by our men before the town was evacuated — the St. Nicholas and the Virginia. We learn that the commander of the Eureka took his boat down the river, and she will probably be captured by the Yankees. Since the foregoing was in type we have c