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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for New Bern (North Carolina, United States) or search for New Bern (North Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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The expedition in North Carolina--the fight at Newbern.[from our own correspondent.] Kinston, N. C., Feb. 8.
It was hard on to four o'clock in the morning when the battle actually begun, al Bachelor's creek, a small, deep, and tortuous stream, runs across the country a few miles above Newbern, and finally empties into the Neuse.
Some five or six miles from the town the railroad crosses vening came on, and still no news.
Just across the Neuse, hardly three-quarters of a mile from Newbern, was Fort Anderson, and this, to prevent the garrison assisting in the fight, and also to keep road to prevent reinforcements.
This Col. Dearing accomplished.
For some two miles around Newbern the forest had been cleared, and the guns of three large forts, together with two parks of fiel into the saddle he rode away.
Half an hour afterwards we heard the humble of artillery towards Newbern, and knew the Yankees were retiring.
When the sun set the enemy was confined within their fort