By E. P. Beach, New Berne, November 4 with postal cover, November 4, 1864, 4pp., octavo, to John Beach, Long Hill, Trumbull, Connecticut, reading, in part: "...no mail or person should leave here until the 8th of Nov but as the Fever was played out the Mail came in all right...I went into the city yesterday and I tell you I was astonished to see the town so deserted the stores all closed and most of them broken open by Niggers. every store has on the door the following card...Keys at the Provost Marshall, the Merchants and Store keepers having all Died...we have no cases in the Regt Hospt now...the Regt lost 75 by fever in less than 2 weeks...in the city and about here over two thousand 2 hundred died of Yellow Fever...the Regt got the Fever in the city while on Duty...not a case was caught in the Camp..."

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