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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Eastern North Carolina. (search)
From Eastern North Carolina. Our Raleigh exchanges bring us few particulars of the fight at Kinston on Saturday and Sunday last. A correspondent of the Journal writing from Goldsboro', under date of the 15th, says that the fighting on Sunday was very severe. Our own forces numbered less than three thousand, whilst the enemy had, at the lowest estimate, twenty thousand. In the fight of Saturday we lost one field piece. The battle on Sunday was commenced about 9 o'clock in the morning and lasted until 5 in the afternoon. Our men fought with excellent spirit, and did not retreat until flanked on both sides. The only open road left was over the bridge across the Neuse. After a portion of our forces had crossed an attempt was made to fire the bridge, but it failed, and the enemy succeeded in crossing under a heavy fire from our artillery. A number of our men were cut off from crossing, and it is supposed were taken prisoners. Our army has retired to Falling Creek, six miles