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]