Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-03-01
THE CAPTURE OF WILMINGTON.
Full and Interesting Details
A Most Brilliant Achievement.


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WAsHsoTos, Feb. 20 - This after.
Moons boat brought up the following
fell details OF the fall Of Wilmington
from tbs Gazette special correspondent
Col. ii V. N. Boynton. These are the
first authentic particulars that have
reached the public:
WILMINGTON, Feb. %, via wAsurSe.
Tos, Feb 20 --Washingson's birthday
has been htly celebrated IN this depari-
ment. Wilmington has followed Charles.
ton, and the last rebel seaport has fallen.
ten. Bragg IN person left the city on
the morning Of the 2lsi. The troops
began to move out in the evening, the
last leaving before daylight on the 22d
What zoe Captured
About forty pieces Of heavy artillery
were LEFT Ia the works around the city
and ia the batteries on the river. and
i've hundred stands Of rites we're found
1t the Cry Hail, and one Whitwortb gun
at the depot Some s., 600 worth ol
eommissary stores were also abandoned,
and three locomotives and dozen cars
Tell into our hands Seven hundred
bales of cotton we're burned ia the Gov.
eminent sheds, and about three hundred
lheelopRing 10 private individuals. A
mills 'a@i PaI!islys taaaBhffas, s works and
adjacent wharves, and the railroad and
pontoon bridges, were destroyed. The
railroad depots, car houses, machine
shops, and most OF the warehouses, we're
uninjured. The ram ChiokRmauga and
two transports escaped mp the river.
The Raleigh Confederate, two days
before the evacuation, charged that u.s..
OOV bales OF cotton we're concealed in
the city Citizens and merchants place
the number at 10000 and put high es-
innate upon the turpentine concs aled.
Both the cotton and the turpentine will
be sent North by General Scho6eld.
Operations against Wilmington
The evacuation Of Fort Anderson
early Sunday morning, the l9th, was fol.
loved by an immediate advance of the
feet and the land forces. The fleet was
preceded by skirmish line OF yawls.
connected by drag-ropes, which elfectu.
ally removed all torpedoes The rebel
rear was overtaken by Col Moore's brig.
AIDE, I'd division 23d army corps, from
Fort Anderson, in time TO extinguish the
bridges leading over the swamps and
streamsin its rear, and this force uniting
with Gen. Cox, who, the night before,
bad nearly reached the line of retreat
Of the enemy, pushed on to Town Greek,
where the enemy was strongly posted 10
works which seemed TO defy assault.
Meantime the neet advanced to the
mouth Of Town Greek. and reeonnoiter-
ed the fort on the left bank of the river
six miles below the city.
General Terry marched three mica
beyond the line which Hoke abandoned
on Federal point simultaneously with
the evacuation of Fort Anderson. He.
met with nc resistance, and at night
was joined BY General Ames, who had
been operating under Gen. Cox 10 the
banking movement against Anderson on
the 10Th, Gen. Terry moved Paine's
division, Esd division, 18th corps, J
Of eolored troops in advance, and with .
loss of 10 killed and IS wounded, drove
the enemy into a strong line of field
works five miles from Wilmington.
Gen. Ames, I'd division, 24Ih corps, sup
ported the advance, losing NO wounded.