We have bad news to-day. My wife and children are the
bearers of it. They returned to the city with the tidings that all the women
and children were ordered to leave Newbern. The enemy have attacked and taken
Fort Hatteras, making many prisoners, and threaten Newbern next. This is the
second time my family have been compelled to fly. But they are well.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 76
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