Col. Wright has had a race with the Yankees on the North
Carolina coast. They fled to their works before his single regiment with such
precipitation as to leave many of their arms and men behind. We lost but one
man: and he was fat, broke his wind, and died in the pursuit.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 84
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