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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
the route through Goldsboroa or that through Raleigh, General Bragg's troops and those of the Armyucted to follow the road from Fayetteville to Raleigh, which for thirty miles is also that to Smitheral Hampton placed Wheeler's division on the Raleigh road, and Butler's on that to Goldsboroa. Th On the 15th the Confederate cavalry, on the Raleigh road, was pressed back by the Fourteenth and gaged the day before were not marching toward Raleigh; but no precise intelligence of the movementshether his march to Virginia would be through Raleigh, or by the most direct route, that through Weed that the soldiers expected to march toward Raleigh next morning; and early in the morning of thee Confederate forces were ordered to march to Raleigh: Hardee's corps, with Butler's division as reto the cavalry, General Slocum to the left of Raleigh, and General Schofield in Raleigh, right and Raleigh, right and rear. Quartermasters and commissaries will keep their supplies up to a light load for the wagons, [4 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memoranda of the operations of my corps, while under the command of General J. E. Johnston, in the Dalton and Atlanta, and North Carolina campaigns. (search)
yetteville next morning. Infantry had crossed Cape Fear, and cavalry had not come in, when one hundred and fifty of the enemy's cavalry charged into the town, which was full of trains and led horses, but without troops. General Hampton, at the head of a dozen men-staff-officers and couriers-charged the body, killing two with his own hand, capturing some, and driving the remainder out of town. March 16th. Arrived in vicinity of Averysboro. Breaking off near here are roads leading to Raleigh, Smith's Lane. and Goldsboro; and, to ascertain whether I was followed by Sherman's whole army, or a part of it, and what was its destination, I determined to make a stand here, to develop numbers and object of enemy. I e elected a point where Cape Fear and Black Rivers were contiguous. My force, two divisions, commanded by McLaws and Taliaferro, small originally, and now reduced by the desertions it had been impossible to prevent in a rapid march, and by the withdrawal of a brigade o