NEW YORK, March 25. – Advices per officers of the George
Peabody state, according to contrabands, that our forces had taken Kingston, N.
C., without sustaining losses.
The Rebel loss – killed and wounded is not fully credited.
Kingston is on the R. R. to Goldsboro.
The Union forces found at Newbern 500 of the finest Enfield
rifles, part of the cargo of the Nashville, which brought 3,000.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 4
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