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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) or search for Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) in all documents.
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Yankee plan of the Spring Campaign.
The New York News has an article upon the coming — indeed, already commenced — campaign.
It is interesting as foreshadowing the expectations which the North expects to be realized within the next few months.
The News takes it for granted that Johnston is retreating before Sherman because of insufficient numbers to meet him in the field.
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After the evacuation of Goldsboro', Johnston retreated upon Raleigh, forty-eight miles distant, and thence, we assume, upon Hillsboro', forty miles more.
Greensboro', the junction of the new road leading south from Danville, is forty-two miles from Hillsboro' and fifty-four miles from Danville.
If Johnston is retreating upon this line, it is for the purpose of reaching Danville, where he may possibly be expecting to receive aid from Lee at Richmond, one hundred and forty miles distant.
From Raleigh, the Gaston railroad runs northeast a distance of eighty-five miles. At Ridgeway, fifty-