The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-03-20
Large Number of Prisoners Ia.
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Forty. Sir Siege Guns. 5000, Stand of
Small arms and q Great Qaan.6usl
>, ,-, ity Of Stores Sscursa,ls ept iaa

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BALTIMoRE, March l8,r-The snemy's
works six miles below Newborn, were at.
tackled on Friday MOI ming last. They
were defended by q force Of 10000
strong, having twenty one guns posted
behind formidable batteries overtvo miles
long. The fight was ono Of The most des,
perate Of the war. Our troops behaved
with great sieadiness and courage, and
after nearly four hours hard 6ghling,
drove the rebels from all their positions,
capturing threa light batteries Of field ar
tillery. furty.six heavy siege guus. large
stores oil fixed ammunition, 5000 stand Of
small arms and 200 prisoners, INCLUDING
one Colonel three Captains and four Lieu.
tenants. t"rN ''' ''
The enemy left large number Of dead
on ths field. They escaped by cars 10
Goldsboro, burning The bridges over lhe
rrsnt and Claremont, and firing the city
Of New bern. No extensive damage was
done he place. "' .A' .'s ''''.o' ~
We lost abOut 100 Eilledand 400 wOun.
ded, mostly of tho New England regi'
ments. Rev. o, NJ. Benton was among
the killed, and Mnjot Lcgeudre, of the
5ist N York Volunteers, mortally woun-
dsd. Lieut.. Col. Merritt, u the 23d Mas
sachusetts, and Adjutant +. A. Stearns,
Of the 2ist Massachusetts,, Of Amherst,
we're also killed, awg w
BALriNoaE, March 1s.NStrgeint.Ms.
or d. s. johnson Of the Twenty, Third
Massachusetts, Regiment, came up passen.
ger by the steamer Oommodorr. From
him We gather tile following interesting
particulars 'e.t'f.'' '''.. '' "
Our troops under Gen. Burnside land.
ell on Thursday evening near the mouth
Of Swan Greek, on the west aide Of Mouse
river, 10 miles below Newbern Owing
to n dense fog the" naval vessels did mol
participate in the fight. Early on Friday
morning eight commenced. Our troops
advanced along the couh,ry road running
parallel with TIE Neuse river but d mile
or two in the rear. The road was slmtsd
on tho west side by u railroad and donse
swamp. "''f A"'9' '' ~"
All'a'ong the river size we're d series Of
batteries which were taken by our troops
one after another, after soms bloody hand
to hand contests. '''' 70 w ,''. '''
D ow troops were divided into three
e brigadrs, under General Reno. Fostor aud
Q Barks '"sa" .'" s't'fl o'H' "''''
q We adYaneell gradGSliy, the cncmy dc,
scihng iheir guns, until We reached a in,
:, Of esrthwerSs extending across the toat
E from the river to the swamp on the west
!. a distance Of some two miles. Thes
"a earthworRs wore very slong. They wer
/. located abouttwo miles south Of Nowbern
I, and b tween there and the city ran tn
Il river Trent. The county road and rail
!. road both passed through these works AN
/. crossad into tho oity BY bridges. wv
' Ia front OF these works the rebols Ia
= felled large number Of trees, forming q
= almost impeueIrabIe aballis, Here Il
" flying rebels we're rallied, and made for
d while a.desperato stand. Our men rougl
until all their ammunition was spent, ,whC
cd an order TO charge bayonets, was giYe
N. land the works were finally taken al tn
-, point of the bayonet ths ehemy flying al
~ leaving everything behind them in the
lie retreat. The rebels burnt tho bridR
lic communicating with the town, oyer viii,
Of they country road aud the railroad "a
q, As they had their trains Of cars 10 The
!" rear, just across the bridges, they
'iS course we're sblo to carry OF their woun
at ed aud dedd. Thtiflch is, therefore, Il