| From the Raleigh Register |
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| July 22, 1863 |
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| Another Raid on North Carolina |
| Soon after mid-day on Monday the
slumbering echoes of this, the sleepiest of sleepy hollows, were
disturbed by a report that Yankee Raiders, numbering some 500, had
reached Rocky Mount, on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, and had
burned the railroad bridge over Tar River, the railroad warehouse, and
Mr. Wm. S. Battle's Cotton Factory. In the absence of Gov. Vance, who
is now in the County of Buncome, Shade-Aid Barnes opened a dispatch to
him giving him the information that the raiders were in Rocky Mount.
The last accounts are that the raiders are returning Eastward by the
Tarboro' road. |
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