| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| July 7, 1863 |
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| Wilmington, July 5 |
| The enemy is advancing on the
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. They were at Kenansville last night,
seven miles from the railroad, with fifteen hundred cavalry. The wires
were cut at half past nine o'clock. |
| [Second Dispatch} |
| Wilmington, July 5 |
| The enemy took Warsaw, on the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad at half past nine this morning. It is
reported that they burned the company's warehouse with twenty thousand
pounds of Government bacon. They left about four o'clock this
afternoon in the direction of Kenansville, where the main body of
their force had stopped. The enemy is estimated at three to four
thousand, infantry and cavalry -- reported to be half white and half
black. |
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