NP, RR 7/8/1863

From the Raleigh Register
 
July 8, 1863
 
Yankee Raid
   The Yankee cavalry at Newbern{, N. C.} made a raid on Kenansville and Warsaw {on the Wilmington & Weldon RR} on Saturday last, burning the sword factory at the former place, and taking $25,000 from the proprietors. The took the same amount from Isaac Kelly and McCarthy, and took fifty negroes from Kit and Bill Hill and all of Dr. Herring's. The also captured Capt. Lane's company of cavalry, only five escaping. At Warsaw they tore up the railroad track for a quarter of a mile, cut the telegraph wire, and burned 20,000 lbs. of bacon. At last accounts they had returned whence they came, and the railroad had been repaired and trains were running as usual between Wilmington and Goldsboro'.

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