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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
We have received Northern papers of Thursday, the 23d instant. Gold, 201 3 8. The evacuation of Wilmington — the fall of Fort Anderson. The Yankee papers contain a good deal about the fall of Fort Anderson, which preceded the evacuation of Wilmington, North Carolina. It appears that the fort was heavily shelled by Porter's fleet and a demonstration made in its front while another effort was made to get in its rear. An account says: General Schofield having accomplished all that he had contemplated by this demonstration in front, about 3 o'clock P. M. withdrew the whole of the Third division and sent it around upon the other road, where he had arranged to have General Ames's division of the Twenty-fourth corps meet them and march together, to come in upon the north side of the fort, the only place at which the enemy could escape. General Cox had provided himself in advance with competent guides to conduct his column by the intricate roads leading through this par