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Seid ds F k Howard, Cyrus J. Mayo and Wi ‘

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By COLONEL STEPHEN D, POOL, Tenth Rearment (1 Arr. )

Rowe.
A yf the
A, 0 Norra Caro.ina Troops.

‘raven County.” —
Sak Jno. T. Elliott’s became oe . anaes ee
Sixty-eighth Regiment, and was from = 2 ganic
The incidents connected with the above a sd ; a
should now be hunted up and oa aes nny
participants preserved if these a : ng oe csarprentee
any having knowledge of the facts. 1

News had been received at headquarters at Kinston in No-
vember, 1862, that two Generals of the Federal army—one
of them commanding in North Carolina, would, on a certain

the acts which caused the General Assembly 1 pan AE day, pass from Morehead to New Bern. It was advisable,
ate f él ks 23 December, 1864, “to Captain John A. in view of certain contemplated movements, to capture the
shuti anks 29 VECce ERE : ; Seay ‘ i
woe " inth Regiment North Carolina Troops, and i train and secure the officers. At 10 o’clock p- m., I received

venty-n hreg Eas s : 4

Teague, 1 went) 1 under his command for the ef : orders to proceed at once to Trenton, take a detail of men
t:. the brave officers and men under his ir duties in 5 os ae ? eres :
if in which they have discharged their duties from Major Nethercutt’s command, and, if possible, on the

: anner in whic : a ey : . !

en Sane tern border of our State from the inroads i day named, capture the train. At 2a. m., I reached Trenton
ing’ wester : : : 7? : f Ng i i
aS 1 depredations of bands of lawless men. to find Major Nethercutt absent on one of his usual scouting
fc y and ¢ : . : oF mn : :
of the enemy ng my ise river of the steamer Mystic 5 April, expeditions. Awaiting his return at daylight, I made my-
The capture in Neus e ;

pany

AN IER OTE RT CIE

ome rear Tete:

g ; ; - Minguas and two barges self comfortable, and was about to indulge in a morning na
1865, and of ~ ete os pe the Sixty-seventh, when the clatter of the feet of a horse, at full gallop, sie
on 7 April, 1865, by small de ane is told in Vol. 3 of this 4 - me to step to the door of the court house to see what was in

n d the capture of a steamer in New River : the wind. : The sentinel upon duty had halted the rider, and
5 Aa aac ; A, of the Forty-first regi- : was receiving from him a paper to be immediately delivered
28 re a Satine of Adams’ battery is to the officer in command. To my astonishment, the note
ment ird Vavairy), Gs

ee ;
then operating in Sherman's

' inci- 4 bore no address, and upon being opened the blank page of
; S _ Doubtless there were other im 8, g pag
narrated in he a << - pence alike to the courage and 4 half a sheet of letter paper was all that met my eye. The
dents of a oe a og Soe memory should be preserved : rider, an elderly countryman, unknown to me, was breathing
enterprise of our troops w

é . ne rg ‘ = ") ; ‘ , ont Te
bcs ycador bakare it is too jate. his jaded horse preparatory to return ; but could give me no
by surviving ¢ other information than this: About 1 o’clock a. m., he was

aroused from his slumbers and on going to his door, found a
lady on horseback who gave him the note, and told him to
take it at full speed to Trenton and give it to any Confederate
officer he should find on duty there, as it contained important
information. In a few moments thereafter, I was in the pri-
vate room of a citizen of Trenton, and his kind wife was
warming an iron, for my use. Applied to the seemingly
blank sheet of paper, heat soon enabled me to see what I de-