. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed to his the rifle-pits, he entered tlie rear of the iutrenchments, mo\ing towardthe right, capturing nine brass guns and driving the enemy from his intrenchedposition l)etween the railroad and the river. Simultaneously ^-ith the move-ment of Colonel Rodman, General Foster made a charge along his whole front,when the enemy retreated. Diu-ing the greater part of the action the gun-boatscooperated by shelling the woods in the rear of the works. Rodmanssoldierly move
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed to his the rifle-pits, he entered tlie rear of the iutrenchments, mo\ing towardthe right, capturing nine brass guns and driving the enemy from his intrenchedposition l)etween the railroad and the river. Simultaneously ^-ith the move-ment of Colonel Rodman, General Foster made a charge along his whole front,when the enemy retreated. Diu-ing the greater part of the action the gun-boatscooperated by shelling the woods in the rear of the works. Rodmanssoldierly movement was the culminating point of the day, and ended a battlemost creditable for all the Union troops and the officers who connnandeiithem. Immediately after the close of the action. New Berne was occuined. When the strength of the position is taken into consideiation, the fatigueof the Union forces, and the great difficulties they had to encounter in mak-ing an infantry attack against a strong intrenched position, it is astonishingthat tliev came out of ihv action with a loss of oidv W killed anil .■>80. EARLY COAST OPERATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 651 wounded. The loss to the enemy was 9 forts, mounting 41 heavy guns, over2 miles of intrenchments, with 19 field-pieces in position, 6 32-poundersnot mounted, over 300 prisoners, more than 1000 stand of small arms, tentsand barracks for 10,000 troops, a large amount of army supplies and navalstores, and the control of the second commercial city in the State of NorthCarolina. The enemys loss in kiUed, wounded, prisoners, and missing wasabout 578. This complete success, coming so soon after that of RoanokeIsland, created an esjrrit de corps among the troops of the Coast Divisionwhich they maintained to the end of their army career. \ \ The Confederate forces in this engagement less than half that number of worn and broken shovels were all North Carolinians, and were commanded •i a^es, without picks or grubbing-hoes. If the fate
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