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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
e 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 had to abandon two guns, 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, t