Posted on 02/04/2024 6:37:55 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Early this morning our outposts at Bachelors Creek were attacked by the enemy, represented to be in force of about 15,000 strong, consisting of HOKES' Brigade and PICKETT'S entire division. It being impracticable to make an adequate defense, our force fell back in good order, destroying the camps, abandoning but few stores, with a loss of fifty to one hundred men and one section of light artillery.
NEWBERN, Monday, Feb. 1.
VIA FORT MONROE, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
To Maj.-Gen, Butler:
Our forces are now so arranged that we are confident of a successful resistance.
Almost simultaneously with this attack, the enemy advanced on the south side of the Trent, with what force it is difficult to estimate, and were handsomely repulsed.
Communication continues with Morehead City, but the enemy are near the railroad with the evident intention of cutting it.
The Commander of Beaufort is aware of the situation and will use every effort to prevent any interruption with the road.
[Signed,] J.W. PALMER, Brig.-Gen.
LATER.
The section of artillery supposed to have been captured, is at Beach Creek and may be preserved.
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Thank you for doing this. All I can say is that “our ancestors should have picked their own cotton”.
Yale and Brown Universities are named after their initial benefactors, who made their fortunes through trading slaves in Connecticut and Rhode Island. They even have unmolested statues on their campuses of Mr. Yale and Mr. Brown
Of course, these sanctimonious, pious, virtue-signaling, New York Times worshiping hypocrites will never breathe a word of this.
It is and has always been New Bern.
The industrial revolution would have shortly rendered slavery moot. The cotton growing areas of the country grow far more cotton than before and not a slave in sight. Unless you want to count as slave all of those not working and living on government support.
Similarly continuing technological advances continue to render many menial jobs moot.
But did the locals invite the Union army to a Pig Pickin’?
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