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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The War! (search)
ace. The United States steamer Enost left Newbern on the 15th inst., and succeeded in passing the Confederate batteries on the river, and reaching Washington. She had on board the 5th Rhode Island regiment. On her refuse, on the 16th, Gen. Foster took passage in her for Newbern. She was struck 18 times by the Confederate batteries, and her upper works riddled by the sharpshooters. , a native of North Carolina, her pilot, was killed. One of the shots of the enemy — a twelve pounder Whitworth — passed directly through the berth which had just been vacated by Gen. Foster, and one of the connecting rods above the cylinder , indenting and bending it so as to render it almost useless. Gen. Heckman's brigade, from Hilton Hond, a part of the force used in the "" of Charleston, had arrived at Newbern. The Knights of the Golden Circle — Riots in Indiana. A serious riot occurred at a Union meeting in Brown county Indiana, on Saturday, by which one man lost his life. It appea<