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MacRae from the Eighth, and 70 men of the Tenth artillery acting as infantry and commanded by Captain Manney.
This force dashed into Washington in the early morning, surprised the garrison, and after a hot fight withdrew, taking several captured guns.
The gunboat Picket, stationed there, was blown up just as her men were called to quarters to fire on the Confederates, and nineteen of her men were killed and wounded.
The Confederates inflicted in this action a loss of 44, and suffered a loss of 1 3 killed and 57 wounded.
On the 2d of October, General Peck sent Colonel Spear, with 1,700 men and some artillery, to Franklin, Va., on the Blackwater, to attack the Confederates at that point, and if possible to destroy a floating bridge there.
The place was defended by Col. J. K. Marshall, of the Fifty-second North Carolina.
Spear reached the river on the 3d, and a lively skirmish took place across the river.
In spite of the fact that General Peck reported his force as having inflicted a loss of from 75 to 200, the Confederate casualties were 2 wounded.
General Foster with 5,oco men left Washington, N. C., for Williamston, on the 2d of November.
At Little creek and at Rawls' mill, spirited resistance to his advance was offered by the Confederates, and Foster lost 6 killed and 8 wounded. The Confederates, however, were not in force enough to do more than retard Foster's movements.
Captain Newkirk, of the cavalry, and Captain Adams, commanding a section of artillery, attacked and destroyed the gunboat Ellis on the New river.
According to General Whiting's report, this affair was very creditable to the officers and men engaged.
On December 10th, Lieut.-Col. John C. Lamb, with some companies from the Seventeenth regiment, a squadron of cavalry under Colonel Evans, and Moore's battery, captured for a time the town of Plymouth, N. C. Colonel Galloway gives the following account of the adventure: ‘The plan was to capture the pickets and ’
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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