The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-11-12
The Fall of EolymOutI,.

The Fall of Plymouth
The Goldsboro State Journal piyes the an
nexed. account of the capture of Plymouth by
tho Federals:
On the evening of Oct 28th, Gen. Baker
commanding this Department., received infrm
alton by telegraph, that the enemy had succeed
ed in surprising and destroying the gunboat
Aibemarle near her wharf at Plymouth. Gen.
Baker, accompanied by his personal staff, i'm
mediatey left Goldsboro for Plymouth, at which
place hc arrived on the afternoon of the 3Oth
in the midst of fierce bombardment of the
town from the fleet of gun-boats which had
stationed themselves in the middle of the river
ont of sight of our batteries.
From their concea!mcnt the cncmv kent nm
a continual shower of canister and shell on tho
devoted town. ,
Finding all their attempts to sail I'D to Ply
mouth direct, foilcd by the stout resistance from
the batteries under command Of Colonel Whit
lord, the enemy retired and ascended Middle
river. There they met distractions which
they soon removed, and rc-entcring the Roam
okc from this direction they Attacked the town
In reverse. General Baker attempted to pre-
vent this by throwing out sharpshooters, but
owing to the exceedingly heavy fire of the
gunooats and the accuracy of their fire these
were driven back and the cycny finding no
opposition they asccndcd the Roanoke and
camo down upon the town.
The first or upper tcrt was manned bv the
crew of the Abcmarlc. This the runBoats
sailed past, though several times struck bv the
shots. from It's guns, the damage not appearing
to DC material The fleet then paid their spr, ial
respects to Fort Jones, where they succeeded in
d's"ount'ng all the guns and exploding the
magazine. Meantime the enemy threw an oc-
caslonal spiteu shell or hot shot over into the
town, which caused several of the buildings to
fire. At this juncture, in the midst of the con-
nagratlon OF the town, the necessary cvacua-
ton OF the several forts, and the landing OF the
enemy, General Baker issued his orders TO
blow up the magazine and withdraw the carri-
SON..
o The m"nnuvre of falling back wAs done with
snch perfect order that nothing of any value
fell into the hands of the enemy with the cx-
cepton of.two guns belonging to Lees battery.
the horses to which had all been killed. The
tota! loss Ill killed, wounded and taken prison.
crs Will not exceed twenty-five or thirty men
GeDeral Baker has fallen back only to James
vile and seems determined to dispute every
loot OF ground around Plymouth, lie iavinr
declded not to cvacuatc Washington. Thus
ended the cventfu affair, though sad in it's re-
suits to tho Eastern part of our State, its de-
fence under such forbidding circumstances
forms another brilliant episode of gallan.ry in
the history of this State
WHAT THE WAR HAS REvEALED.-O Official
documents from the War office at Washington
show that the Yankee Government has called
into the field, from first to last, over three mil
lions of men. They have, besides, some six
hundred vessels of war, equivalent, we should
think, in what they have done and What they
nave prevented rs from doing, to a million
more OF men, Qucry-what has become of all
these men9 Echo answers: What
Inc steamer Marmora was fired into at Prai-
re Landing, on the White Riycr. and inllownd