Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 17, 1861

Page 3

 

                                    From the Newbern Progress of Friday last:

                                          ATTACK AT FORT HATTERAS!

            Information reached here late last night by a Lieut. Of the Roanoke Guards, from the undersigned, that on Wednesday, 10^th inst., between 12 and 1 o’clock, a man of war, 44 guns, came under the guns at Fort Hatteras, when an engagement took place which lasted three fourths of an hour, each party firing about 7 or 8 guns.  No damage was done on our side.  The vessel was struck and thought to have been disabled as she struck colors and sloped.

                                           LIEUT. C. W. NIGHT

                                           Com. at Fort Hatteras

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]