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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The news The Richmond and Petersburg lines. Unbroken quiet prevails on these lines. The report comes to us from Petersburg that Grant is transferring some of his troops to aid Sherman in North Carolina. We cannot vouch for the truth of the report. A large body of woods on the lines below Richmond were on fire yesterday. From North Carolina. There was a rumor on the streets yesterday that General Johnston had attacked Sherman in his entrenchments at Bentonsville and driven him out of them. We have received no official intelligence confirmatory of the rumor, and for this and other reasons, doubt that there is foundation for it. General Singleton. After a protracted visit, this gentleman left Richmond yesterday by flag of truce for Grant's lines. We learn that the objects, whether looking to peace or commerce, that brought him to Richmond, have not been realized. He goes back a sadder. if not a wiser, man.
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
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 or five thousand.--A gentleman, just from Weldon on Saturday last, informs us that he saw an official dispatch from General Johnston, which placed our loss at three hundred and fifty, and the supposed loss of the enemy at five thousand. "The following is what we think, probably, approaching a true account, though among so many rumors we cannot vouch for the absolute truth of any: It seems that the fight commenced about noon on Wednesday, the 15th, and continued briskly until night. Considerable skirmishing was carried on all night, and on Thursday morning the battle commenced furiously, and raged the whole day.
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Arrival of prisoners. --Upwards of nine hundred Yankee prisoners, captured from Sherman's army by General Johnston, arrived in this city yesterday and were quartered at the Libby prison. A large number of others are expected to arrive here during to-day.