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Hanging Rock, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
d four thousand cavalry; if to this be added the portion of the army of Tennessee, about twenty-five hundred men under command of General Stephen D. Lee, which afterward joined the army at Smithfield, North Carolina, and that of General Bragg's command at Goldsboro, which amounted to about eight thousand, the aggregate would be about thirty thousand five hundred men of all arms. After leaving Columbia, the course of the Federal army through Winnsboro, across the Catawba at Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, and Peay's Ferry, and in the direction of Cheraw on the Great Pedee, indicated that it would attempt to cross the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, North Carolina--a town sixty miles south of Raleigh, and of special importance, as containing an arsenal, several government shops, and a large portion of the machinery which had been removed from Harpers Ferry—and effect a junction at that point with General Schofield's command, then known to be at Wilmington. Up to this time, while no enc
Bentonville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
valry exploits General Johnston Withdraws to Smithfield encounter at Averysboro battles of Bentonville Union of Sherman's and Schofield's forces Johnston's retreat to Raleigh. After the evacue 19th, and ordered the troops at Smithfield and General Hardee's command to march at once to Bentonville and take position between that village and the road on which the enemy was advancing. An erin time to attack the enemy's left wing while in column; when General Hardee's troops reached Bentonville in the morning, however, the attack was commenced. The battle lasted through the greater parvery attack was handsomely repulsed. On the next day (21st) an attempt by the enemy to reach Bentonville in the rear of our center, and thus cut off our only route of retreat, was gallantly defeatedxas Cavalry, fell mortally wounded. On the night of the 21st our troops were withdrawn across Mill Creek, and in the evening of the 22d bivouacked near Smithfield. On the 23d the forces of General S
Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
fterward joined the army at Smithfield, North Carolina, and that of General Bragg's command at Goldsboro, which amounted to about eight thousand, the aggregate would be about thirty thousand five hun As it was doubtful whether General Sherman's advance from Fayetteville would be directed to Goldsboro or Raleigh, General Johnston took position with a portion of his command at Smithfield, which Smithfield, and posted one division of his cavalry on the Raleigh road, and another on that to Goldsboro. On March 16th General Hardee was attacked by two corps of the enemy, a few miles south of Avf the 18th General Johnston obtained definite information that General Sherman was marching on Goldsboro, the right wing of his army being about a day's march distant from the left. General Johnstonfield. On the 23d the forces of General Sherman and those of General Schofield were united at Goldsboro, where they remained inactive for upward of two weeks. On the 9th of April the Confederate
Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
e command the enemy's advance from Columbia to Fayetteville, North Carolina foraging parties Sherman's threat and Hamptonaide-de-camp failure of Johnston's projected attack at Fayetteville affair at Kinston cavalry exploits General Johnston d that it would attempt to cross the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, North Carolina--a town sixty miles south of Raleigh, eral party by General Hampton with an inferior force at Fayetteville on the 11th. As it was doubtful whether General Sherman's advance from Fayetteville would be directed to Goldsboro or Raleigh, General Johnston took position with a portion of places, leaving General Hardee to follow the road from Fayetteville to Raleigh, which for several miles is also the direct road from Fayetteville to Smithfield, and posted one division of his cavalry on the Raleigh road, and another on that to Goles south of Averysboro, a place nearly half-way between Fayetteville and Raleigh. Falling back a few hundred yards to a str
Rocky Mount (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
artillery, and four thousand cavalry; if to this be added the portion of the army of Tennessee, about twenty-five hundred men under command of General Stephen D. Lee, which afterward joined the army at Smithfield, North Carolina, and that of General Bragg's command at Goldsboro, which amounted to about eight thousand, the aggregate would be about thirty thousand five hundred men of all arms. After leaving Columbia, the course of the Federal army through Winnsboro, across the Catawba at Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, and Peay's Ferry, and in the direction of Cheraw on the Great Pedee, indicated that it would attempt to cross the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, North Carolina--a town sixty miles south of Raleigh, and of special importance, as containing an arsenal, several government shops, and a large portion of the machinery which had been removed from Harpers Ferry—and effect a junction at that point with General Schofield's command, then known to be at Wilmington. Up to this time
Lynch's Creek (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
guilty of such disgraceful conduct, when free from the observation of their officers, is conceivable; it is difficult, however, to imagine that, in the nineteenth century, such acts as are described above could be committed habitually, in view of the officer of highest rank in the army of a civilized country, and not merely pass unpunished or unrebuked, but be recorded with conspicuous approval in the pages of a military history. The advance of the enemy's columns across the Catawba, Lynch's Creek, and the Pedee, at Cheraw, though retarded as much as possible by the vigilant skill of our cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler, and Wheeler, was steady and continuous. General Johnston's hope that, from the enemy's order of moving by wings, sometimes a day's march from each other, he could find an opportunity to strike one of their columns in the passage of the Cape Fear River, when the other was not in supporting distance, was unhappily disappointed. On March 6th, near Kinston,
Branchville (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
d reach sooner than was possible to Sherman, whose passage of the river must have been much encumbered and delayed by his trains. Of these defensive positions, Branchville and Orangeburg may be regarded as eligible; had Sherman headed his columns toward Charleston, our forces would then have been in position to attack him in frontAfter thoroughly destroying the railroad between these places, which occupied three or four days, he advanced slowly along the line of the railroad, threatening Branchville, the junction of the railroads from Augusta to Columbia and Charleston. For a short time it was doubtful whether he proposed to attack Augusta, Georgia, where ny important factories and shops, and large stores of army supplies; on the 11th, however, it was found that he was moving north to Orangeburg, on the road from Branchville to Columbia, the latter city being the objective point of his march. Early on the morning of the 16th the head of his columns reached the Congaree opposite Col
Averasboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
ide-de-camp failure of Johnston's projected attack at Fayetteville affair at Kinston cavalry exploits General Johnston Withdraws to Smithfield encounter at Averysboro battles of Bentonville Union of Sherman's and Schofield's forces Johnston's retreat to Raleigh. After the evacuation of Savannah by General Hardee, it sooof his cavalry on the Raleigh road, and another on that to Goldsboro. On March 16th General Hardee was attacked by two corps of the enemy, a few miles south of Averysboro, a place nearly half-way between Fayetteville and Raleigh. Falling back a few hundred yards to a stronger position, he easily repelled the repeated attacks of upward of seventy thousand, came together and repeatedly attacked a division of our force (Hoke's) which occupied an entrenched position parallel to the road to Averysboro; every attack was handsomely repulsed. On the next day (21st) an attempt by the enemy to reach Bentonville in the rear of our center, and thus cut off our only
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
red men of all arms. After leaving Columbia, the course of the Federal army through Winnsboro, across the Catawba at Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, and Peay's Ferry, and in the direction of Cheraw on the Great Pedee, indicated that it would attempt to cross the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, North Carolina--a town sixty miles south of Raleigh, and of special importance, as containing an arsenal, several government shops, and a large portion of the machinery which had been removed from Harpers Ferry—and effect a junction at that point with General Schofield's command, then known to be at Wilmington. Up to this time, while no encounter of any magnitude had taken place, the enemy's progress had been much impeded by the Confederate cavalry, and the robbery of private citizens by gangs of armed banditti, called foraging parties, was in a large measure prevented. The right of an army to forage as it advances through an enemy's country is not questioned. But the right to forage, to col
Combahee (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.37
The seriously impaired conditions of our railroad communications in Georgia and Alabama, the effect of the winter rains on the already poor and ill-constructed country roads, the difficulty in collecting and transporting supplies, so impeded the concentration of our available forces that Generals Beauregard and Hardee—the former at Columbia, South Carolina, and the latter at Charleston—could only retard, not prevent, the onward march of the enemy. At the outset of his movement the Salkehatchie River presented a very strong line of defense. Its swollen condition at that time, and the wide, deeply inundated swamps on both sides, rendered it almost impossible to force or outflank the position if adequately defended. It might have been better if we had then abandoned the attempt to hold cities of no strategic importance, and concentrated their garrisons at this point, where the chances of successful resistance were greater that at any subsequent period of the campaign. For, even i
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