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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
party was fired upon, but no material damage was done. The obstructions being removed, the regiment dashed along in fine style, the men full of ardor and enthusiasm. At eleven o'clock A. M., the village of Trenton (on the Trent) was reached, the inhabitants therein, with a few exceptions, fleeing the town. Trenton is a village of eight hundred inhabitants, with about seventy houses. It has the usual appendages of a small town — has a dilapidated appearance. It is the county-seat of Jones County. The natives that were left when our troops entered, said their confreres had gone up country, (to Dixie.) The Registrar of the county, a fellow of corpulent dimensions and a jolly red nose, received our troops, acknowledged himself a secesh, deprecated the war, and swore like a trooper. He was too old for consideration, and his carcass not worth the expense or trouble of making him a prisoner. I should have stated, that before reaching Trenton, a body of rebel cavalry was seen by ou
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], Homicide. (search)
Homicide. --In Trenton, Jones county, N. C., on the 5th inst. Ed. Farnell surprised at his house Nathan Gilbert, the seducer of his wife, and shot him three times, blowing his head completely off.
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Incidents of the Newbern fight. (search)
itizens, but strangely enough a large amount of spirits turpentine, owned by John Dibble, was not destroyed. Capt. Westervelt, who formerly ran a schooner between Newbern and New York, came as a pilot for the fleet, and a man named Berry, who left Newbern since the war commenced, has also returned with the invaders. The Yankee pickets extend to the distance of 5 or 10 miles around the town, and about 1,000 soldiers are encamped at the Clemmins larm, about four miles west of Newbern. The Confederates have rallied, been reinforced, and are at a place where they will be heard from in due time. It is confidently expected that Burnside will move up the Noise river to Kinston soon, and unless stubbornly resisted will move on towards this place. Mr. George Petry, a prominent and patriotic citizen of Jones county, is a prisoner in irons at Newbern for having helped our retreating army across the Tren it river, and preserved the arms they were compelled to leave behind.
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Patriotic county. (search)
have hauled up some one or two of their gunboats on the marine railway there, and are repairing them. They have the railroad machine shop in full blast, but what they are doing in them is not known. We cannot learn that they have made any movement towards Beaufort, or even thrown out pickets to any distance in that direction. A report that Federal troops had been seen at Trenton and at Pollocksville, in Jones county, appears to be without foundation. Trenton is the county seat of Jones county, on the Treat river, about twenty-five miles south of Newbern, and Pollocksville is also on the Treat river, about half way between Newbern and Trenton. Of the many striking incidents and hair-breadth escapes connected with the affair at Newbern, as with almost all combats is one which might be called "a close shave" Captain Latham the gallant commander of the field battery which went by his name, got shot through various portions of his clothes — once through his hat, more than onc
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
From the South. The Southern and Western malls, due on Wednesday night, came through yesterday morning, and we are thus enabled to lay before our renders an interesting summary of recent events. A fight in North Carolina. The Raleigh State Journal, of the 26d, publishes a full account, derived from eye-witnesses, of the fight at Gillette, in the lower part of Jones county, N. C., between a detachment of cavalry under Lieut. Col. W. G. Robinson, and a pillaging party of the enemy. We copy the main portion: On Sunday, the 12th inst., Col. Robinson set out in quest of the enemy, who, he learned, was perpetrating the most wanton and heartless excesses in Jones and Onslow counties. His command consisted of the following companies and parts of companies:--Capt. Bryant, 50 men; Capt. Strange, 50 men; Capt. Turner, 50 men; a detachment of Capt. Cole's, 15 men, Lieut. King commanding; a detachment of Capt. Andrew's, 15 men, Lt. Allison commanding, a detachment of Capt. Th