Posted on 04/26/2024 6:35:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, April 24, via BALTIMORE, Monday, April 25.
Capt. WEATHERBEE, of the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment, has just arrived from Roanoke Island. He makes the following report:
"Gen. WESSELS surrendered to the enemy on Wednesday, the 20th inst., when the rebels took possession of Plymouth, N. C., after four days' hard fighting.
Our loss is one hundred and fifty killed and twenty-five hundred captured.
The rebel loss is fifteen hundred killed.
The Richmond Sentinel of April 22 says the following dispatch has been received by Gen. BRAGG:
PLYMOUTH, N.C., April 20.
To Gen. Braxton Bragg:
I have stormed and carried this place, capturing one brigadier, one thousand six hundred men, stores, and twenty-five pieces of artillery.
R.F. HOKE, Brigadier-General.
A telegram was also received by the President from Col. JOHN TAYLOR WOOD, dated Rocky Mount, 21st inst., giving further particulars of the capture of Plymouth by the forces under Gen. HOKE, with naval cooperation.
He says about twenty-five hundred prisoners were taken (three or four hundred of them negroes,) thirty pieces of artillery, one hundred thousand pounds of meat, one thousand barrels of flour and a full garrison outfit. Our loss was about three hundred in all. Col. MERCE was among the killed.
Two gunboats were sunk, another disabled, and a small steamer captured.
NEWBERN, N, C., Friday, April 22.
The battle, which had been going on night and day at Plymouth, from Sunday, the 16th, to the 20th inst., resulted in the capture of the city by the enemy on Wednesday noon, including Gen. WESSELS and his forces -- 1,500 men. The enemy obtained possession of the town at 8 o'clock in the morning. Gen. WESSELS and his troops retired into Fort Williams and held out until noon, repulsing the enemy in seven desperate assaults,
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