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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.113 (search)
ys were in camp, busily engaged in preparing for another campaign. We had made the march from Savannah to Goldsboro‘, a distance of 430 miles, in seven weeks. We had constructed bridges across the Edisto, Broad, Catawba, Pedee, and Cape Fear rivers, and had destroyed all the railroads to the interior of South Carolina. We had subsisted mainly upon the country, and our men and animals were in better condition than when we left Savannah. All this was done in the winter season. We found Goldsboro' already occupied by our troops, the Twenty-third Corps, under General Schofield, and the Tenth Corps, under General Terry, having captured Wilmington and arrived at Goldsboro' a day or two in advance of us. After the fall of Wilmington, Feb. 22d, 1865, General Schofield sent a column, under General J. D. Cox, to open the railway from New Berne to Goldsboro‘. At Kinston (see map, p. 694) Cox encountered, March 8th, Bragg with Hoke's division and a portion of Hood's troops, under D. H. H
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 79 (search)
at measure attributed. Col. Ledlie, Third New-York artillery, Acting Brigadier-General, handled his batteries with great efficiency and skill, and will, we understand, be promoted also. One of the three special correspondents of the Herald, the only paper represented in the department, came very near being killed by a charge of grape from a rebel battery during the engagement. Gen. Foster defeated the expectations of the rebels in every particular. As we go to press we learn that Goldsboro and Weldon have fallen, and that our victorious armies are still in motion. Newbern, Dec. 23, 1862. In our Thursday's issue we gave an account of the battle at Kinston, and there left the victorious troops. We now proceed to give an account of what followed. On the fourteenth instant, after saving the bridge at Kinston, which the rebels endeavored in vain to destroy, the Federal army, under Gen. Foster, crossed over the river, and formed in two columns, advancing almost at right a
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 14: the Peninsular campaign begun; Yorktown (search)
the Potomac and the other the Army of Northern Virginia--no wider range and view demanded of them than a single field of operation and the two contending armies. As McClellan stepped ashore near Fortress Monroe the afternoon of April 2d, Admiral Goldsboro was out in Hampton Roads with his fleet; the entrance to York River was then clear enough of foes, but a terrible soreness was afflicting that naval squadron. There was a waning confidence in wooden vesselsl Only a few days back the long'dand men had regarded their well-manned and wellarmed ships. The Monitor thus far was thought to have succeeded only in worrying the gigantic enemy and causing a temporary withdrawal. Nobody then believed it the final contest. Of course, Admiral Goldsboro and his men bravely stayed in Hampton Roads, ready to die there if need be; but McClellan could not get that strong, constant, energetic, sanguine help for Yorktown that Grant had had from Commodore Foote's fleet at Fort Henry, or that was
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
ed men's souls, and put to the severest test the metal with which the Confederate soldiers were made. All signs indicated that the end was near at hand. Lee had abandoned Petersburg and Richmond, though this was unknown to us until several days thereafter, as I shall later on show; all of North Carolina east of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad had been given up; and Sherman had made his memorable march through Georgia to the sea, and through the Carolinas, having as his objective point Goldsboro, where he purposed to form a junction with Schofield, moving from Newberne and Kinston, and with Terry, moving from Wilmington. This was accomplished by him on the 23d of March, 1865. The giant arms of an octopus were rapidly closing upon the Confederacy in her final desperate but grand struggle for independence. Just one month previous to the junction of these three armies, flushed as they were with victory, that old war-horse, General Joe Johnston, had relieved Beauregard at Charlotte
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Amusements. (search)
e Southern Confederacy. The Burnside expedition — the troops at Annapolis — arrival of transports, &c. The correspondence of the New York Post, who will accompany the Burnside expedition writes from Annapolis, on the 24th ult., as follows: The storm has prevented much out-door progress in the outfit of the expedition. The barque H. D. Brookman, Captain H. E. Cheney, is the only arrival of to-day. The naval part of the expedition is now arriving at Old Point Comfort, and Commodore Goldsboro', who is in command, is already there. The transports with the troops will probably sail from here to that point on Saturday. General Burnside is busily engaged in forwarding the expedition as rapidly as possible, but there will be no unnecessary haste, and when the entire fleet sails for the point of attack it will be not only formidable but complete. The proximity of a large number of Federal troops has not in the least disturbed the quiet of this place. There has been a d
The Daily Dispatch: January 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
vessels at Hatteras. It was believed that the destination of the vessels was either Roanoke Island or Beaufort. [Second Dispatch.] Wilmington, Jan. 18 --P. M.--Further and official intelligence, derived from passengers from Portsmouth, N. C., on yesterday, state that forty-two steamers and three sail vessels are at Hatteras. The majority of them, however, have been there for a week past. No further news from that quarter to-day. The above dispatch was received here from Goldsboro' this afternoon. There is no definite news here about the fleet. The weather is mild this evening. [third Dispatch.] Wilmington, Jan. 19 --The following dispatch was received from Goldsboro' last night: On the 16th inst. there were twenty-four small steamers and sixteen sailing vessels inside and seven large steamers outside of Hatteras bar. More are reported to be in Pamlico Sound. The above may be relied upon, as it comes from an officer in Hyde county.
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e Interior Department portfolio, and there is not a shadow of doubt about the appointment of Mr. McCulloch to the Treasury. The same authority places Hannibal Hamlin on the slate for Minister to Rome, with full sanction of the President to kiss the Pope's toe and obtain absolution for all his sins. The campaign in North Carolina. A dispatch from Newbern, North Carolina, dated the 25th ultimo, says: Rebel deserters, who have just come in, report that General Lee has ordered Goldsboro' and Kinston to be fortified, which order is now being carried into effect. Goldsboro', he says, must be held at all hazards. A large force is now at work night and day at Goldsboro', throwing up fortifications. Capture of a Torpedo Expedition. The Chattanooga Gazette has lengthy details of the capture of a Confederate yawl and fourteen men, at Clapman's landing, below Kingston, on the Tennessee, by seven Tennesseans. The yawl was armed with torpedoes, intended for the destruc