. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . April 13 and 14, 1861; Brigade Com. inBurnside Expedition ; Yols., Oct. 23, 1861. Fought at RoanokeIsland and Newbern; Mil. Gov. of Newborn; Brevet , ,April 2, 1862 ; made Com. 1st Div. Ninth Army Corps ; reduced Fort Ma-con April 25, for which made Brevet Col. U. S. A.; Major-Gen. Vols., July18, 1862 ; com.
. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . April 13 and 14, 1861; Brigade Com. inBurnside Expedition ; Yols., Oct. 23, 1861. Fought at RoanokeIsland and Newbern; Mil. Gov. of Newborn; Brevet , ,April 2, 1862 ; made Com. 1st Div. Ninth Army Corps ; reduced Fort Ma-con April 25, for which made Brevet Col. U. S. A.; Major-Gen. Vols., July18, 1862 ; com. Dept N. C. and 18th Army Corps, Dec. 13,1862 ; won bat-tle of Kinston, and attacked Goldsboro ; March 3, Major Engineers U. S. A.;besieged at Washington, N. C, March 30, 1863; escaped April 14 ; com-manded Dept of Va. and N. C, July 16, 1863; Dept of Ohio, Nov. 30,1863 ; transferred to Dept of South, May 26, 1864 ; Dec. 4, captured Rebelworks near Pocotaligo, S. C, and about Jan. 15,1865, broke the Charleston& Savanuah R. R. and joined Shermans command, and was put in charge On the 10th of February, 1865, Gen. Gillmore succeeded him incommand of Dept of South. On the 27th of June, 1865, he was assigned tocommand of Department of Kinston^ etc.^ N. C. contemplating the piercing of the enemys center—weakened bythe great prolongation of the rebel line—and thereby gaining com-mand of a military road in the rear that afforded communicationbetween the two wings; thus dividing the hostile forces and placingthem at the mercy of the Union army. It was a magnificent stake,splendidly fought for; and the result was a splendid failure. Adefeat of this nature, however, is by no means without parallel inthe campaigns of the finest military geniuses of modern stands side by side with the terrible reverses of Bonaparte atAspern, at Essling, and at Waterloo. \ i KINSTON, ETC., N. C. Deceuber 14, 1862. Unionists, under General Foster, about 10,000. Killed and wou
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