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m, Admiral, very respectfully, your obedient servant, S. B. Luce, Lieutenant Commander. To Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Commanding S. A. B. Squadron. Headquarters in the field, Lowry's, February 7, 1865. Telegram in cipher. Rear-Admiral J. A. Dahlgren, off Charleston, S. C.: We are on the South-Carolina road, at Midway, and will break fifty miles from Edisto toward Augusta, and then cross toward Columbia. Weather is bad, and country full of water. I have ordered Foster to move Hatch up to the Edisto, about Jacksonboro and Willtown; also, to make the lodgment about Bull's Bay. Watch Charleston close. I think Jeff Davis will order it to be abandoned, lest he lose its garrison as well as guns. We are all well, and the enemy retreats before us. Yours, W. T. Sherman, Major-General. flag-steamer Harvest Moon, Port Royal Harbor, S. C., January 31, 1865. Despatch No. 49. Honorable Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Sir: I am now able to convey to the department a
ine across the turnpike, half a mile from the position whence the advance began. A charge of cavalry on the road and an infantry attack on the extreme left were made after dark. Both were easily repulsed. The opposing force of the enemy, as I learned from captured officers, consisted of General King's division, of four brigades, and a battery of howitzers. One piece was captured, and about one hundred prisoners. Among the prisoners were Captain Judson, Assistant Adjutant-General to General Hatch, and Captain Garish, of the battery. During the night of the twentieth, under orders from General Hood, I resumed the position to the rear of Groveton, which I had occupied in the morning. At daylight on the thirtieth, the enemy advanced a heavy line of skirmishers toward this point. These were met by my riflemen and those from the Texas brigade, and sharp skirmishing continued until about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the main attack of the enemy began. This attack, which w