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In late 1862, Union forces under the command of Gen. John G. Foster, well entrenched in New Bern, made several incursions into the surrounding countryside extending as far inland as Kinston and Goldsboro.
Foster’s men approached Kinston on December 13 and came upon Confederate defensive forces under Gen. Nathan G. Evans. After a heated exchange, Evans withdrew to earthworks along Southwest Creek and near the Neuse River and prepared for Foster’s second attack, which came the next day. The encounter is often called the First Battle of Kinston.
Evans positioned about 2,000 North Carolina and South Carolina troops in a semicircle. Supported by heavy artillery fire, the Union troops broke through the Confederate left flank. Evans ordered a retreat to Kinston.
References:
John G. Barrett, The Civil War in North Carolina (1963)
William R. Trotter, Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Coast (1989)
William S. Powell, ed., Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006)
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, I, XVIII, 53-54, 112-113
Walter Clark, ed., Histories of the Several Regiments, III (1901), 5-7-509
Lenoir County Battlefields Commission website: http://www.historicalpreservationgroup.org/wil_park.htm
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