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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
Our Wilmington Correspondence. Wilmington, North Carolina, December 19, 1864. There has been considerable excitement here for the last two or three days, and especially yesterday, when the local forces were called out and other measures taken to resist the reported landing of the enemy. Without giving the authority upon which the statement is made, I may remark that intelligence has been received to the effect that a land force, estimated at twenty thousand men, together with the fleet of monitors and gunboats which has for some time been assembling at Fortress Monroe, sailed on Friday, the 16th, for the south, with the intention of making a descent on the coast in the vicinity of Newbern and Wilmington. Other facts and circumstances were reported in connection with the expedition, which I need not stop to relate. If Wilmington had been the destination of the enemy, the fleet should have arrived off the mouth of the Cape Fear on Saturday; any how, on Sunday; but up to the