Posted on 03/13/2025 8:50:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 12.
From Richmond papers of Friday, March 10, received to-day at the Washington office of the Philadelphia Inquirer, we make the following extracts:
THE CAROLINAS.
RUMORED UNION DEFEAT NEAR KINSTON.
From the Richmond Examiner, March 10.
The following official dispatch was received yesterday, announcing a victory to our arms in North Carolina:
HEADQUARTERS, ETC., March 9.
Hon. Jno. C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War:
GENERAL: Gen. BRAGG reports that be attacked the enemy yesterday, four miles in front of Kinston, N.C., and drove him from his position. He disputed the ground obstinately, and took a new line three rules from his first. We captured three pieces of artillery and 1,500 prisoners. The number of the enemy's dead and wounded left on the field is large, ours comparatively small. The troops behaved most handsomely, and Major-Gens. HILL and HOKE exhibited their accustomed zeal and gallantry.
(Signed,) R.E. LEE.
Kinston, near which place the fight occurred, is situated on the direct route from Goldsboro to Newbern, and about 20 miles east of Goldsboro, and is about 30 from Newbern. It is supposed that this force of the enemy was advancing from Newbern against Goldsboro for the purpose of cutting the railroad at that point. It is not probable after this repulse that the enemy will attempt to advance, and it is likely we shall next hear of them falling back upon Newbern, or changing their course to some other point of the compass. This movement of the enemy was evidently designed to be cooperative with SHERMAN, and in this fight and at this juncture it may be of great value to us in embarrassing the movements of SHERMAN.
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Operations Against Mobile: Our Army and Navy in Front, if not in, the City – 3-4
Army of the Potomac: Reported Mutiny in the Rebel Army – 4
From Fortress Monroe-Released Prisoners – 4
Sheridan’s Expedition: Details of the March – 4
From the Mississippi – 4
From New-Orleans: Court Martial of New-York Soldiers – 4
From Kentucky: Gen. Palmer Down on Guerrillas and Slave-Pens – 4-5
From Charleston – 5
Editorial: Lee’s Dispatch – Sherman’s March – 5
Editorial: Mobile – 5-6
Editorial: The National Army – Our Military Administration – 6
Editorial: Mining in the Pacific States – 6-7
Discipline in the Fire Department – 7
From San Domingo: The Counter-Revolution – 7
The Seven-Thirty Loan – 7
The Moravian Outward Bound – 7
Gen. James Watson Webb and Capt. John Codman – 7
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