On Saturday week, near South Mills above Elizabeth City, N. C., the 3d Georgia Regiment, Col. A. R Wright, attacked a strong force of the enemy, and fought them several hours. The Norfolk Say Book says:
Our force consisted of six companies of the 3d Georgia Regiment and McComas’ Artillery. The companies were not full and the whole number of men on our side may he set down at from three to five hundred.
The enemy’s force, by their own admission, through the prisoners captured by us, consisted of five regiments, namely: the 9th New York (Zouaves,) 89th New York, Col. Hawkins, 4th Pennsylvania, 31st Massachusetts, and a New Hampshire Regiment, in command of Brig. Gen. Reno.
The battle lasted until 5 1/2 o’clock P. M., when our forces were ordered to fall back on their entrenchments at South Mills, which they did in good order. The enemy encamped on the ground, but during the night hastily decamped.
There were seven killed in the third Georgia Regiment, viz: Messrs. Widener, Dale, Ward, Mallory, May, and two others whose names were not ascertained. The wounded are: Lieut. Wilson in the knee, severely; Serg’t John A. Nicholson in the thigh; James A. Robertson, in the head; Wm. C. Wright, in the face; Jos. Necroy contusion from a shell; Wm. J. Chamberlain, in the shoulder; W. A. Palmer, in the hand; M. Daniels, in the arm; Evans in the chest; B. B. Adams, in the thigh. The number on our side engaged was three hundred and fifty; on the enemy’s, six regiments, besides artillery. The killed and wounded of the enemy, over one hundred.
Southern Christian Advocate, Charleston, SC