From the Enquirer, April 22, 1864.
CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH—ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED PRISONERS
AND TWENTY-FIVE PIECES OF ARTILLERY CAPTURED.
The following is a copy of a dispatch received in Richmond, yesterday morning, by General Bragg:
"Plymouth, April 20th.—To General Bragg.—I have stormed and carried this place, capturing one Brigadier, one thousand six hundred men, a quantity of stores, and twenty-five pieces of artillery.
R.D. Hoke, Brig-Gen.
From the Enquirer, April 25th:
Promoted.—Brigadier-General R.F. Hoke has been promoted to the rank of major-general, to date from the capture of Plymouth, N.C.
From the Enquirer, April 26th:
The Plymouth Affair.—The Wilmington Journal, of Saturday, says "our loss in killed and wounded is not large considering the magnitude of the enterprise; but, as might have been looked for from the character of the conflict, the works having been stormed, a large proportion of the wounds are of a desperate character." When a place is taken by storm, and there is resistance, as in this case, the fighting is done hand to hand—guns are fired off at a trifling distance and the wounds inflicted in most cases are serious if not mortal. We learn that some of our wounded who have been brought to Wilson, bear evidence of the desperate character of the struggle whilst it lasted. They are wounded in almost every imaginable way, and but few of their hurts can be called slight.
From the Dispatch, May 2d, 1864.