Battle of New Bern New Berne |
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Craven County, North Carolina
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Burnside’s North Carolina Expedition
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Coastal Division North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
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471 Killed: 90 Wounded: 380 Missing: 1
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578 Killed: 64 Wounded: 101 Missing: 413
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On March 11, Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s command embarked from Roanoke Island to rendezvous with Union gunboats at Hatteras Inlet for an expedition against New Bern. On March 13, the fleet sailed up the Neuse River and disembarked infantry on the river’s south bank to approach the New Bern defenses. The Confederate defense was commanded by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Branch. On March 14, John G. Foster’s, Jesse Reno’s, and John G. Parke’s brigades attacked along the railroad and after four hours of fighting drove the Confederates out of their fortifications. The Federals captured nine forts and 41 heavy guns and occupied a base which they would hold to the end of the war, in spite of several Confederate attempts to recover the town. (NPS summary)
The author be the National Park Service, KaraBo! See that there tarnations that there says "NPS Summary"? Yessum? Well Bo, that NPS fanciness is meanin' this all plagiarized from National Park Service (hence the fancy ol' NPS), 'cause you an unoriginal, lazy, bigotted, psychopathic, pedophilic, dumb, insecure, primitive, power-hungry, stupid, cognitive-dissonance-filled, lyin', stealin', cheatin', idiot, despotic, nutcase, crony Leebur, yessir, I call and say, Leebur!! RUNN!!! THE LEEBUR HOAX GOT YA', KARABO!! RUN AWAY!!! HUCKHUCKHUCKHUCKHUCKHUCKHUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!
| Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina Expedition, February-June 1862 |
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| Battles of the American Civil War: 1862 |
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| | Eastern Theater | | | | Western Theater | | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | |
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