Craven-Jones County NcArchives News.....New Bern Incidents 1862
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Weekly Standard 1862
Weekly Standard, 9 Apr

New Bern Incidents

We learned, says the Christian Sun, several incidents worth relating, during 
our trip to Kinston and vicinity last week.

George Perry, a prompt and worthy citizen of Jones county, for helping our 
retreating soldiers across the Trent with his flat and preserving the guns 
they were compelled to leave behind, was seized by the Federals and threatened 
to be shot in his own yard. His wife retreated and he was put in irons and 
jailed in Newbern. At last accounts, the irons had been removed, but he was 
still in jail.

John Richardson, Esq., living about 6 miles from town on the Washington Road 
had to call on Gen. Burnside for protection from his own negroes who had 
entered his house declaring that he was no longer their master and they 
intended to eat and drink whatever they pleased and he dare not interfere with 
them. Burnside sent a guard to protect him.

The Yankees went out to the farm of J.M.F. Harrison, a prominent merchant of 
Newbern, and destroyed every thing they could. When inquiry was made as to the 
bitterness manifested towards Mr. H., they said he was a "rebel captain." Old 
and infirm persons who sought protection at the hands of Gen. Burnside, were 
protected by a guard. Thus, when Miss Ellis, the matron of the Griffin orphan 
school, was disturbed by soldiers, Burnside had a guard placed near the 
premises, and no soldier was permitted to enter.

Among the families who remained in town after its capture, we heard the 
following: Mr. Coles, Alexander Justice, Lacy Phillips, Z. Slade, Joseph 
Robinson, Dr. Disoway, L. Heritage, Prof. Doherty and Dr. Boyd. Some of them 
sent away some members of their families. Prof. Doherty sent his children to 
Graham, and he and his wife remained. The Yankees entered the house of Mr. 
Robinson, and seeing a watch in his wife's sick room, deliberately took it 
down and carried it off.


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