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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], More Federal Outrages. (search)
his city from York county yesterday. He informs us that the Yankee Vandals are continuing their depredations in the country around Hampton, and perpetrating deeds of lawlessness, which have produced a panic among the people. The house of Mr. Wm. Anderson has been broken open, all the valuables taken therefrom, and the furniture destroyed. Even his bonds and other private papers were torn into small pieces. His out-houses and growing crops shared general ruin. Mr. Wm. Turnbull shared a similar fate to Mr. Anderson, saving nothing but a horse and wagon, in which he and his wife and seven children reached the steamboat wharf yesterday, and are now in this city. The house of Mr. Algernon Whiting was robbed yesterday morning at early dawn, his granaries destroyed, and then the torch applied, and all the buildings burned to the ground. This last outrage is supposed to have been committed by a portion of the scoundrels who are now quartered between Hampton and the Fort.
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
h, where it was soon joined by a portion of Brown's battery, of the same corps. The North Carolina Regiment, under Colonel Hill, was also there, making in all about 1,100 men, and seven howitzer guns. On Saturday last the first excursion of considerable importance was made. A detachment of 200 infantry and a howitzer gun under Maj. Randolph, and one of 70 infantry, and another howitzer under Maj. Lane, of the N. C., regiment, started different routes to cut off a party which had left Hampton. The party was seen and fired at by Maj. Randolph's detachment, but made such fast time that they escaped. The troops under Maj. Lane, passed within sight of Hampton, and as they turned up the road to return to Bethel, encountered the Yankees, numbering about 90, who were entrenched behind a fence in the field, protected by a high bank. Our advance guard fired on them, and in another moment the North Carolinians were dashing over the fence in regular French (not New York) Zouave style, f
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
the cause of the Southern Confederacy, I send you an outline, prepared under the eye of an officer of high rank, who had a distinguished command on the occasion. From it your readers will be enabled to form a just idea of the locality, and the manŒuvres, without feeling themselves confused by the details, which are always sure to encumber the narrative of an inexperienced writer, or of one who writes upon a contracted view of the whole field. Outline. The road from Bethel Church to Hampton runs South. The Confederates posted themselves on both sides of it at the Church, facing down the road to Hampton. The U. S. troops came up it until within artillery range, and planted their battery in the road, but screened from sight by a small house and by woods.--The Confederate battery on the right and close to the road opened on the U. S. battery and on the column in its rear. The U. S. battery replied, and columns of U. S. troops wheeled to the right and left, circled around the p
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
reinforce, and intended mak- ing an attack on us in a short time as soon as they returned. The entire was arranged for the assault. position of our troops. The encampment was a paralled formation, the corners of the fortifications lying nearly due East and West, North and South, and was protected by embankments thrown up on four sides, the strongest of which was on the southeast side, which commanded the road, the bridge and the field, through which troops must pass coming from Hampton, and was well fortified. To the defence of this position a howitzer battery of three guns, under the command of Major George W. Randolph, and four companies of the N. C. Regiment on the northwest side; the remainder of the N. C. Regiment were stationed from East to West. On the south side was a ravine 30 feet deep, and very marshy. This position was defended by a battery of one howitzer gun, under the command of Capt. J. Thompson Brown on the left, and an earthwork and trench made and oc