Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
July 17, 1861
Page 3
����������������������������������� From
the Newbern Progress of Friday last:
����������������������� ��� ������� ������ATTACK AT FORT HATTERAS!
����������� Information
reached here late last night by a Lieut. Of the Roanoke Guards, from the
undersigned, that on Wednesday, 10th inst., between 12 and 1
o�clock, a man of war, 44 guns, came under the guns at Fort Hatteras, when an
engagement took place which lasted three fourths of an hour, each party firing
about 7 or 8 guns.� No damage was done on
our side.� The vessel was struck and
thought to have been disabled as she struck colors and sloped.
����������������������� ����� ����� �������LIEUT. C. W. NIGHT
����������������������� ������ ���� �������Com. at Fort Hatteras
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
