Newbern, N. C, has fallen into the hands of the enemy! Our
men, though opposed by greatly superior numbers, made a brave resistance, and
killed and wounded 1000 of the invaders.
The enemy were piloted up the river to Newbern by the same Mr.
Dibble to whom I refused a passport, but to whom the Secretary of War
granted one.
The press everywhere is commenting on the case of Dibble— but
Mordecai still sits at the gate.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 118
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