steamers Emily and Arrow in the Currituck Canal and North River.
Eighty Confederate cavalrymen executing his order left Murfreesboro on June 27 and fired on USS gunboat Ellis in the Meherrin River off the Winton road, but retired when the vessel replied with shell, canister and grapeshot., On May 15, 1863, 'guerillas' (Confederate home guards) captured U.S.
Holmes ordered cotton destroyed here and in other nearby towns. Murfreesboro, a prosperous riverfront commercial center, interested both sides during the war.
