84 Norru Carotina Troops, 1861-65.

Greenville. Before we got to Greenville serene ie
burning we were informed. _We can Hes eee Bie
Confederate soldier after having been as ae es : omer
were by the citizens would have applied the tore

town.
NEW BERN.

. ; eras
Plymouth and Washington having tars preg ce
: 1 y day tart was made by Gen
erate hands in a few days a8 en shies
Y ing Kinston and Trenton,
for New Bern. After passing S
Trent river, Major Kennedy was ordered to take a gu

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spond to those just put by its side, and to complete the tem-
porary structure we hastily put on some railings extending
from one bank to the other. All things being ready to re-
sume the march the horses were led across and the order to
mount given.

As we mounted, and before the order to march was given,
General Dearing and Colonel Folk rode up. The sun had
just risen and as we got out to the road with Captain Edg-
erton and Captain Pitts, a few of the enemy came in sight, a
dash was made at them by about four men, catching only one.

1 make through the swamp (or Dismal As soon after this as the troops could be collected and proper

Be te woul -ossing of the ereek a short dispositions made the attack on the fort was ordered. The

1 eaneag arene d, twelve miles be- advance on the work was participated in by all the troops
5 ae be |

een pe cana der to carry out. present and without any disposition to show the white feather
low New Bern. This was a very tiresome order y present and withot any disposition to show the white feather

d used ;
The road we had to travel was Hak er barn ‘hat over leys and the white flag appeared as we advanced. A few over
only by pedestrians as a hunting path, an 200 well equipped soldiers were captured and what there was

. . k to knee-deep in water. c |
half of “ ee ee sea pen and then concluded that of supplies, of all kinds, in the sani
We tried it by two

ingle file would do better. This did better, but by no means : Se
sing

 

 

rough
well, for by the time 300 horses follow one another a 2
wad and water the last that pass in the track are as muda)

The city of New Bern was not well supplied with troops
and was ready to capitulate had an attack been made, with
a proper demand, but an order from General Lee hurried
General Hoke at once back to the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia and but a few days elapsed before all our cavalry were
ordered there, arriving just in time to aid in what should

i le
coons and often they go up to stirrups and even to the sadd

d that it was necessary to ma ck -
eet rene at all for we had about 300 horses, and “get there
to)

i eek
was the word of command. Finally we came to the er

i fort.
about 100 yards from the county road leading by a nar
Where we struck it the banks were high for that eee os
the water deep. There was a large oak shops oe mie “

ing been used as a toot-log
d the appearance of having | se
eeies so = concluded to use this log as a causeway for
P iecicsar tats

have been the decimation or bottling up of the whole of But-
ler’s army. After Butler was disposed of then five compa-
nies of our regiment, with two of Claiborne’s (Pitts and Bar-
rett) were ordered to dislodge the enemy from Dunn’s farm.
We went for them and they hastened to Bermuda Hundreds

and Port Walthall, taking refuge in the boats and under
cover of their guns.

‘os by adding to its breadth a foot on each side; so at : “if
ee Taking the measurement of the stream, ae se : -
‘3 ss Lo]

es pines standing a little way off and beech — figs

ild at 3 o’clock in the night, we broug tet

ok ate d milling them on it until we could ba oad ;

a ‘d t ee desired localities, we placed them by the side ir
dead. ay They were flattened on the top and sides, an

i em on top of our old oak and flattened it to corre

en

One whole night they shelled us without any casualty, for
without knowing it at the time we had selected a position
which gave us all the protection we needed. The next morn-
ing a few ventured out but in a very short while they were
glad to get back under the protection of their guns. We re-
mained on this farm only a few days when General Dearing