Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-04-22
CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH.
l,6oO Prisoners and Twenty-Five Pieces OF
Artillery Captured.

CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH.
l,6oO Prisoners and Twenty-Five Pieces oi
Artillery Captured.
The following is a cory Of O despatch re-
csi7ei in Richmond, yesterday morning, by
Gen. Bragg:
"PLYHoUTu, April ~.
"2o General Bragg:
al have s.ormed and carried this place.
capturing one b1igadier, one thousand s's
hundssa men, a quantity Of stores and TWEEN
ty-hse pieces of artillery.
"R. F. HokE, Brigadier General.
IA telegram WIS received by the President
from Col. John Taylor Wood, dared Rocky
Mount, 2lst instant, giving further p%articu-
lars of the capture of Plymouth by the tc-css
under Gen. 'Hoke, with naval cooperation.
He says that about twenty FIVE hundred pri-
soncrs wore takcn-three or four hundred OF
them negroes; thirty pieces Of ARTILLERY, one
hundred thousand pounds of meat. one thou
sand barrels of -four, and a full garrison ont
fit. Two gunboats were sunk, another di'a-
b,ed. and a smsll steamer captured.
Ou- loss was about three hundred IN all
Col. Mercer was among the killed.
Plymouth, in Washington county, NoFtH
Carolina, the capture Of which - thIs an
ncunced, is situated near the entrance O. 'ho
Roanoke river into Albema-le Sound. fz"m
Sound through Creation Sound, by
Roanoke Island, our iron clad gunboas, under
Com. Cooke, can pass round into Pam"
lico SouaG-destroJ the enemy's shipping
all wooden vessels, since no ~iron>clad has en-
tered Hatteras Inlet-and take Newbern in
the rear. From Plymouth uia Washington
to Newborn, there is q good rosd-the dis
tancc about fifty miles.
We look for the most import@r. rasalEs' IN
North Carolina in few days. We ara now
again near the scene of our first DISASTER
As Hatterss was the first n tia series Of I'm
por.aat positions captured by the enemy, 1t
Youli seem that SUCCESS vas about %hcglonlns
4. the very poiat where disaster commenced
Nswbern oroe mc-s in our posssss'oa, won!"
soon restore Beaufort, and with j: al o' Np'tn
Carclina-the possaaaion CT the great acahus
of that State, VITA Hattoras Inlot, would give
W q post not easily biockaded, and tho COM
mand Of the greatest corn region Of the Cen'
fedsracy.
This news was in rumor in Richmond Oh
the evening of the Goth. The public PRESENT.
ment WAS fixed upon this event all during the
evening of that day.
General Hoke has struck o most effective
blow for the redemption of his native S5ste.-
HIS command was composed Of North Carroll.
mans, and they have nobly and g~allantly libe'
rated a most Important part of their State
from the invader. We shall hago more, and
get greater news from this and co operating
expeditions.
The cooperating naval expedition is under
shs command Of Commander r. +. Pinknoy.
Commander J. W. Cooke commands the iron-
clad eunboat "Albemsrle," in Roanoke river.
Lieut.. B. P. Loyal commands tho iron-cla2
sunboat "Neuse," in the Neuse river, and
Lieut.. r. B. Minor commands a tlotilla Of
cutters" in the Chowan river.
"HASTONUP"-"HASTEN UP"-"HIS
.
"Wsrren Adams, courier from TRANSMITS
s%issippi, reports that on the 9th Banks cou-
rier to General franklin was cap;ured.-
Banks says Hastonup was surrounded BY feb-
81 cavalry"
The "Whig" suggests the reading &c fol
lows:
Banks says "uasten up i AM Ute was)
surrounded by rebcl cavalry"
Suppose we substitute for "Hastonup"
"His troops"-sny reading that may be given
to this cabalistic "Hsstonup" puts Banks in
q predicamcnt that is very pleasant to uasym'
~pathising rebels.
Has.opup is not the only difficulty in that
telegram. 1t continues:
"The Red River has suddenly f.!lon, aud
some forty transports and gunboa:s were
"caught above the raft and csurot get out
q" until the water rises again."
nav TGJt: Luz HSeu nNfCI A'HtS 40
ADORE Shreveport. If this telegram means that
raft the steamboats, and g~unboats must be
caught above Shreyeport-in which case Smith
rather than Banks would be 'caught." We
take raft to mean rapids-a limestone forma-
ton a few miles above Alexandra, which
rc;ses the bed of the river and greatly OBJ
s.ructs navigation, especially at any low stage
OF the water. The telegram, therefore, should
read: "Hasten up" or "his troops" were sur
rounded, &c.. and that the transports and gna-
boats were caught above the Rapids and can
not got. over until there is o rise, which, as
this season, is not to be expected until the
June rise.
Mansfield, whore the reported battle was
fought, is in De Soto Parish-near Bayoa
Pierre-aboye Natohitochcs. "The Little Mis-
souri," is q tributary of the Wachita River
and rises in Piks county, Arkansas.
HETH'S DIVISION AT GETTYSBURG.
We publish below a statement Of officers
from Heth's Division, concerning the conduct
of that command in tho battle of July Cd,
1868, at Gettysburg. We have published
heretofore every statement sert to US il is
no part of our purpose to persist in error. e
we have fallen into any, bu. we feel bound to
sustain the statement Of our correspondent
"An He did not say that Heth's Division was