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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t. Among the captured property are two hundred pieces of good artillery and a supply of fine ammunition. The enemy burned their cotton warehouses, arsenals, quartermaster stores, railroad bridges, two iron-clads and some vessels in the ship-yard. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. From the New York papers we take the following particulars of the occupation of the city: The evacuation of Charleston was discovered by our forces, under General Schimmelfenning, from James island.--Exactly at what times is not yet reported, though the occupation of the city and of the fortifications took place at about ten o'clock in the forenoon of the 18th instant. The departure of the rebels from Forts Sumter and Moultrie was, it is understood, seen from our picket boats, which reconnoitre the harbor at night; and the operations of the rebel garrisons began about twelve hours before the evacuation was completed — namely, at ten o'clock on the evening of the 17th. Earl