December 11, 1861 – Col. Ransom’s Regiment
November 28, 1861 – Secession Rescinded in North Carolina
November 19, 1861 – Opinions of the Press of Col. Singletary’s Late Expedition
The Charlotte Bulletin of the 11th in copying our remarks made some days ago headed “Render Unto Caezar,” &c., makes the remark which follow :
Col. Singletary.—We truly regret to learn that the brave, humane and dashing officer, whose name heads this notice, has been arrested by order of Gen. Hill, for having gone on an expedition without orders, but which has resulted in a way a thousand times more important than would have been the recapture of Hatteras, the Federal soldiers there, and the total destruction of the fort.
September 21, 1861 – Getting on Swimmingly
The Union and American, of yesterday, publishes the following from a letter received in this city. We congratulate our friend on this lucky escape. We don’t think now, and never did, that be was born to be drowned :
September 18, 1861 – Outdated Information
September 14, 1861 – Latest News
The U. S. gunboats Conestoga and Lexington, on Tuesday, attacked a rebel battery of sixteen suns, on the Missouri side of h Mississippi river, near to Lucas bend, and, after an action silenced the battery, and disabled the rebel gunboat Yankee.
Charles H. Foster, a loyal member of Congress, from North Carolina, called on President Lincoln, and tendered to him a full brigade of loyalists from that State.
The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature yesterday adopted, by ayes 71, noes 26 resolutions directing the Governor to issue his proclamation ordering the rebel troops to evacuate Kentucky. The Legislature also refused to receive a resolution directing a proclamation to be issued for the departure of both the United States and rebel troops.
September 2, 1861 – Important News from Coast of North Carolina
The Federal Fleet Attacking Two Sand Batteries—Their Capturing Six Hundred Prisoners, &c.
The steamer Louisiana, Capt. Cannon, from Old Point, arrived Sunday, A. M., and brings the following important advices from the Federal fleet, which sailed from Old Point on Monday last. The steamer Adelaide had returned from the fleet and proceeded to Annapolis on Saturday, having on board Major General Butler and fourteen wounded Confederate prisoners, bound to Washington. We understand that the entire fleet, consisting of five war vessels, surrounded and engaged two sand batteries on the beach, at the mouth of Hatteras Inlet, and after considerable firing on both sides, a shell from the frigate Minnesota, caused the explosion of the Confederates’ magazine, when the entire body, said to number six hundred, were forced to surrender, from loss of ammunition and no means of retreat. Included among those taken prisoners, was Com. Barron. They were all sent to New York.
August 20, 1861 – Capt. Crumpler’s Cavalry Company
August 17, 1861 – The Transfer—Coast Defence, Etc.
We are glad that the time when the forts, naval vessels, arsenals, arms, armaments etc., belonging to North Carolina is to be transferred to the Confederate Government, is near at hand.
That much work has been done on our coast we are willing to admit, and that we have many brave and gallant men on the Seaboard is undeniable, but still the defences are not what they ought to be, nor are the forces as numerous at some points as they should be.