Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-11-12
of Yankee Troops into this State.

Advance of Yankee Troops into this State.
We hear many rumors, but nothing very definite,
up to the time of going to press in relation to the
advance of the enemys forces into the interior, to-
wards the Wilmington and Weldon Road
There is no doubt of the fact that some six reg-
ments, with artillery, crossed Swift Greek some
days since, on the North side of Neuse river. What
point they were making for is not known. 1t is
certain that some of.the enemys steamers passed up
Tar river on Sunday last nearly if not quite to
Greenville, shelling the country they advanced.
This may have been intended to divert attention
from the advance on Weldon.
1t is reported that conflict took place on Mon
day last near Hamilton on the Roanoke between
three regiments of the enemy, with some cavalry
and artillery, and portion Of the 26th regiment
| under Col. Burgwyn. 1t is said that we lost ten
killed and thirty wounded and that our forces had
| fallen back to within a few miles of Tarboroueh.
We have various reports as to the strength of the
enemy, one being that they have ten thousand
troops Hamilton with forty pieces of artillery.
We have conversed with friend who, left Plymouth
on Saturday last who informs US that he saw un.
m;stakable indications of an advance by the enemy
up Roanoke river.
A day or two since We had not more than four
thousand effective troops in that part of the State
but reinforcements have been sent forward from
Petersburg to the scene of hos:ities.
Gov Vance left this City, with Gen. Martin, on
Monday last for Tarborslgh. Gen. NJ. is said to
be in command of our troops.
There are many rumors in circulation that we do
not repeat but We VIII give what intelligence we
may receive that may deem at all reliable up to
the last moment before going to press.
We have constantly warned our people, for
months, Of the impending danger to our Eastern
Counties, and urged them to remove their slaves,
Nth a sutfeisncy ef ment and bread toT their sup
port But the STORM so long gathering is now upon
hem and fear that not only great suffering will
ensue but that millions of property will be de-
stroyed. The government, too, at Richmond is
deeply interested in the movement which no doubt
has the cutting of our Railroads at Weldon for its
object If the government would not be cut off
from North Carolina and particularly from all the
Southern Atlantic States and indeed entirely cut
off from them, with the exception of the means of
transportation furnished by the Danville Road and
the East Tennessee and Virginia Road it MUST rouse
itself to the dangers that threaten it, and make the
necessary efforts to drive back the enemy to his
| gunboa:s. The main hope, if not the only hope
| which we have that Eastern Carolina will be res
cued from the grasp of the enemy, is in the fact
! that the government at Richmond will find itself
isolated from the Southern Atlantic States, unless
it should make vigorous efforts to save the Rail-
| roads at Weldon. In other words the necessities
of that government, which has so long neglected
our State, will we trust, lead to such measures as
will relieve Eastern Carolina Of the presence of the
enemy.
| P S-Since the above put in type We learn
from reliable sourc. from Tarboro the following
version of the above rumors
l. 1t appears that three companies of the 26th N.
| C. Regimen: had been sent down below Hamilton
| OF WILLIAMSON, as other forces had been sent to
other points, to enable people to remove their
negroes and other moveable property from beyond
the enemy's lines Many were availing themselves
of this arrangement, and were removing large num-
! bc.s of blacks. The Yankees hearing of this, de-
termined to p event it, if possible and hence moved
force in the direction OF Hamilton or WILLIAMSON.
! COL Burgwyn with his small force, determined
to arrest their progress, and hence attacked them,
keeping in check very superior force of the ene-
my until reinforced, when he determined to fall
back to better position. The rurnors about the
landing of the enemy in BERTHE, and on Tar river,
and Of his intended advance upon Tarboro', were
believed to be premature. We hope that the ru-
mored destruction of property at Hamilton, by
the enemy, is also magnlfed or unfounded.
STILL FURTHER. At the last moment we learn
from an entirely reliable source that the Yankees
went up the Roanoke river in their gunboats, on
Wednesday last, and landed in force near Palmyra,
Halifax County. This place is only 25 or 80 miles
from Weldon.
Gen. Pettigrew is said to be in command at Wei.
don with good force. Ifso, we have good hope Of
success