| From the Raleigh Register |
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| July 8, 1863 |
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| 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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