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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
From North Carolina. The North Carolina papers bring us some scanty particulars of the fight at Averysboro' on the 15th and 16th instant. They argue that the battle was a desperate one for the size of the force engaged. The Raleigh Progress says: "We have conversed with several wounded and other soldiers engaged in the fight, and they all agree that it was a desperate one. Most of them our entire loss was about one thousand, while they say that of the enemy must have been four thousand the horses belonging to them being all, or nearly all, killed, so that he was unable to bring them off." The Charlotte Carolinian publishes something about the part borne by the South Carolina troops in the fight. It says: "On the 16th instant, four miles below Averysboro', which is between Fayetteville and Smithfield, two corps, under Slocum, and Kilpatrick's cavalry, were met by Rhett's brigade of South Carolina regulars, and held in check for five hours, until the arrival of Gene