| Goldsborough, N. C. |
| December 23, 1862 |
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| Hon. James A. Seddon |
| Secretary of War
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| General Evans' brigade reoccupied Kinston
yesterday {25 miles east on Goldsboro on the
Atlantic & North Carolina RR}. The bridge at that point is being rebuilt. General
Pettigrew's brigade and Leventhorpe's regiments were ordered to
Weldon and Petersburg
last night, but they were detained by a collision, in which two
engines were disabled {almost certainly on the
Wilmington & Weldon RR}; no lives lost. The brigade started this
afternoon. General French has returned to Petersburg. The cars are running regularly from
Wilmington
to the Neuse
River {just south of
Goldsboro}, and the railroad bridge at that point being reconstructed.
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| G. W. Smith
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| Major-General
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