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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The war. (search)
A New Trotting Track is being prepared in Chesterfield, but a short distance from this city, and will be ready for sport in a very short time. Good horses are getting scarier every day, and but few fast trotter can be found in the South. The breed of "light drafts" can only be improved by speed, and would become extinct but for the race course.
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The last North Carolina raid. (search)
The last North Carolina raid. --Recapture of Negroes and Cattle.--The Kinston correspondent of the Raleigh State Journal writes, July 21st, as follows: The last of the Yankee marauders have disappeared for the present. They took their final exit on yesterday, by way of Swift creek, but we may look for them again and that very soon, for they are certainly coming. Our forces pursued them on their retreat as far as Street's Ferry, within ten miles of Newborn, continually harassing their rear with cavalry, artillery and infantry. They did not even pause for a moment to return the fire, but fled in dismay and confusion, throwing away every encumbrance as they went that seem to impede their flight the least, until they reached the ferry, where they took shelter under the cover of their gunboats that came up the Noose on night before last, to their rescue. Had it not have been for the enemy's gunboats in the river the entire expedition would have been captured. There wa