SHORT and SWEET RAID - Co. D, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers

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                            SHORT and SWEET RAID

                    Co. D, 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers


[ The following must qualify as the shortest and sweetest of the Union army
excursions into Hyde County during the Civil War. ]

p. 150

21 Sept. 1863 - Captain S. C. Hart of [Company] ‘D’ took 100 men on the
steamer, Col. Rucker, to Swan Quarter, near the mouth of the Pamlico River.
Their object was the rescue of certain union men from prison. They met no
armed resistance and found no prisoners. After a few hours sojourn, long
enough for a taste of the local honey and peach brandy, they returned to
New Berne.

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Source: "A Record of the 23rd Regiment Mass. Vol. Infantry in the War of
Rebellion, 1861-1865, with alphabetical Roster, Company Rolls, Portraits,
Maps, etc.," by James A. Emmerton, A.B., M.D. and published by William Ware
& Co., Bostor, 1886.

                                  

                          Copyright 1998

                                 

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