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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
The news. Since the fall of Fort Fisher there has been no official intelligence made public concerning the movements of the enemy at that point. Our most reliable information is, that the enemy have attempted no advance towards Wilmington. Fort Caswell, which guards the southern mouth of the Cape Fear river, was, at last advices, still held by our troops; but it is feared it will be rendered useless to us by the enemy blockading the river at a point between it and Wilmington. Sherman has resumed active operations. On Saturday last, two corps of his army advanced from Beaufort upon Pocotaligo, which was that night evacuated by our troops, under General McLaws. Sherman, with the remainder of his army his artillery and trains, is reported to be advancing along the Charleston and Savannah railroad. Pocotaligo is on the railroad, forty miles north of Savannah and fifty south of Charleston. Sherman's destination is reported by prisoners and deserters to be Charleston; and t