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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
enemy at five thousand. "The following is what we think, probably, approaching a true account, though among so many rumors we cannot vouch for the absolute truth of any: It seems that the fight commenced about noon on Wednesday, the 15th, and continued briskly until night. Considerable skirmishing was carried on all night, and on Thursday morning the battle commenced furiously, and raged the whole day. General Hardee, with about half a corps, was intrenched between Black creek and Cape Fear river, at no great distance from the confluence of these two streams, but at a point higher up than that at which the enemy crossed the former stream. Here he was attacked by two corps of Sherman's veterans, and our works were charged three several times, and each charge was repulsed with immense slaughter. We do not understand the position of General Bragg, but we are informed that his troops were driven back, which made it necessary for Hardee to fall back to prevent being flanked. He ha
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
arolina burned, two warehouses occupied by the Rockfish Company burned, court-house and jail burned, all the cotton factories burned. "John Waddell was killed on his plantation, about four miles east of Fayetteville. None of the citizens of Fayetteville were killed. John T. McLean, W. T. Horne and Major Hawly were all hung, to extort from them where their valuables were hid, but were taken down uninjured. It is reported that about four hundred negroes and whites were drowned in Cape Fear river in endeavoring to escape with the Yankees, either from the sinking of a flat or the Yankee officers cutting the pontoons loose. "Private residences, after being plundered, were guarded, to 'protect' them." The battle of Bentonville. A letter from Bentonville, March 20th, gives the following about the defeat of the enemy there the day before: "The fight yesterday was successful. I was on the right, and saw Bate's and Cleburne's divisions charge and carry two lines o
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