... to turn to the left by Hackney's cross-roads, Pittsboroa, St. Lawrence and Ashboroa; Major-General H. W. Slocum to cross Cape Fear river at Aven's ferry, and move rapidly by Carthage, Caledonia, and Cox's Mills ; Major-General J. M. Schofield was to hold Raleigh and the road back, and with his spare force to follow an intermediate route. By the fifteenth, though the rains were incessant and the roads alm...