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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The charge of the Light Brigade (search)
The Exploit at Chickamacomace — additional Particalars.
A private letter, dated Elizabeth City, No. 5th, to a gentleman residing in Richmond gives some further particulars of Col. Wright's expedition to Chickamacomco and which we are permitted to copy, The additional statement of the capture of the steamer Fanny is equally intereating.
Elizabeth City, N. C.,Oct. 5, 1851.
Col. Wright, with the Georgia regiment of Col. Shaw's, amounting in all for fifteen hundred men, went down on yesterday 4th inst. to Chickamacomico, to attend a regiment of eight hundred of "Lincoln's Ressians," stationed, or very recently there, with resulted in the capture of two of the cowardly dogs, with several hundred muskets, many pistols, two page pieces of artillery, a large quantity of ammunition, blankets, &c., and provisious sufficient to feed a regiment for thirty days.
There was not a single man killed on either side, as the cowardly rascals did not stand long enough to fire th