Greensborough Patriot
November 13, 1862
Page 2
Fight in North Carolina
An engagement
occurred near Williamsburg, Martin county, N. C., on the afternoon of the 2d,
between four companies of the 26th North Carolina regiment and a
large force of Yankees, who had marched from the town of Washington to a point
on the Roanoke river below Williamston, with a view of cutting off the 17th
and 57th North Carolina regiments, stationed in that
neighborhood. The four companies engaged
were under the command of Col. Burgwyn, and held in check a largely superior
force of the enemy during the day, and until the 17th and 57th
regiments came up, when battle was offered, but declined by the enemy. Our loss is reported at two killed and
thirty-one wounded, most of them only slightly.
The enemy’s loss is known to have been much greater, one entire cavalry
company being cut up and destroyed. This
was the celebrated “White Horse” company, which had been a perfect terror to
the people of Washington and surrounding country. –Richmond Dispatch, 7th—
The Raleigh State Journal of
Tuesday says:
We
are in a position to state, from the best information we can command, and we
think it reliable, that the enemy lately threatening Tarboro’, has fallen back
to Plymouth, within reach of his gunboats.
Our forces are fortifying Hamilton.
A force is concentrating at Weldon, sufficient to put the defence [sic]
of that place at rest, and to look to other parts.
[Transcribed
by Sharon Strout]
