On the North Carolina coast, a Confederate amphibious assault captures a Union camp at Chicomacomico

Three days before, Confederates had captured a supply ship for a new Union garrison at Chicomacomico, above Hatteras Inlet.  Georgia troops from Roanoke Island, aboard barges, made a dawn assault on this force, the 20th Indiana, captured their camp, stores, and forty prisoners, and drove the rest back along the beach towards Cape Hatteras. A Union counter-attack the next day, supported by naval fire, drove the Confederates back to their boats.  (By John Osborne)