From The Greensborough Patriot

Jan. 2, 1862 – Pg. 3

North Carolinians and the War.--

The recent handsome action of a North Carolina company in attacking successfully a gun boat of the enemy at Port Royal Ferry is noticed elsewhere. The people of the “Old North State” may take no small amount of pride in the fact that North Carolinians have first drawn the blood of the enemy, on the battle field, in Virginia and South Carolina; and it Col. Vance’s Regiment can get a meeting with the Union traitors of East Tennessee, whom he is now pursuing, the same will be the case in that State also.—Fay. Presbyterian.