Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-04-10
We Join Sherman--He Reviews the
23d Corps.
CAMP 65rH IND. Vols, !

GoLDsBoRo N. O., March "a, 1865.
Editosa Evansville Journal.
We have joined Sherman's grand
army, and feel jubilant In consequence
thereof The 18th corps - Shsrmanls
advance -- arrived berc yesterday even
ing. Sherman himself arrived yester-
day morning A thousand rumors have
been in circulation for the last eight or
ten days as to the whereabouts of Gen.
Sherman, but the matter is settled at
last.
The Sd division, (ours,) commanded
by Brig. Gen. hiley, was reviewed by
Sherman yesterday He was aecompa-
nied by Major Gems. Sehofeld and Cox,
Brig. Gems. Riley and Barry, and q mum.
Der Of other Generals / did not know
Whenever he came TO regiment he
took off bis hat He looks thinner thar
he did last summer, but suppose 3
owing to his arduous campaign. v do
not care what rebels we have TO fight
now We feel confident Of the result.
His army looks finely, in a health
point of view; but they need clothing
greatly They have had no clothing for
three months. asss 3. 1st
The army has been living on forage
obtained on the march. Regular forage
details were made, and they took every
thing in the way of grub that they
came across. In South Carolina they
applied the torch to almost every house
on their route. The men thought no
punishment was too bad fer South Caro-.
lima They haye'done no fighting since
leaving Savannah until o few days ago,
when two divisions of the 14in corps had
a, considerable fight with Bragg. He
was too strong for these two divisions,
and the Goth corps was brought up, and
| the rebels were then driven back behind
their first line OF works, and our forces
! left them there. We have this place
well fortified, and If they attac k us here,
we will make it second Franklin. ~
In the rear Of the .I4th corps, yester-
| day, there was quite a numbero Of " mig
gers big niggers and little niggeFs !;
large niggers and small niggers; fat
niggers and lean niggers handsome
niggers aud ugly niggers and, in fact,
all sorts, sizes, and kinds OF niggers
Ask them where they are going, and the
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the army" That is all they know about
il, and that is all they care about it, for
they are perfectly happy. 90 .aH
The march of the I'd and Sd divi-
sions OF the 23d corps from Wilmington
| TO Kinston was quite hard. We aver
aged from sixteen to eighteen miles q
day overy very bad, swampy roads. We
got to kinston the day after Gen. Cox
bad his fight there.
We remained at Kinston several days,
and while there detail of one thousand
men was made 10 cut cross-ties to re-
pair the railroad | guess the, cars
will be running here in q day or two,
and suppose the railroad to Whining
ton will soon be put in running order to
this place. We viii then have Newbern
and Wilmington to get supplies from.
The country we have travelled through
in North Carolina has oeen very poor.
Nothing but sandy ground, pine trees
and big swamps. There is no good
water in this part of the country, and
we use pine for fuel If it is green
pine il smokes perg bad, if it is dry pine
it smokes considerably soorse
The inhabitants OF North Carolina are
quite dark in color. Persons are called
white down here that would be called
mulattoes in Indiana. Some persons say
the pine smoke is the cause of it, ant
others are equally positive that the Nortl
Caro- -linny-ans have 'miscegenated' con
siderRbly. l don't pretend to be able tC
decide upon so 6ne point, but, per
haps, at some future day | may be able
, to find out all about it.
Considerable foraging has been dom
by the army in this State, and we havt
. lived high Chickens, turkeys, hams
sweet potatoes, molasses and other luxu
ries, are gobbled up by the soldiers. A
our regiment was passing Maj. Gen. Cox
the other day, one of his staff attempte,
Ia count the number of hams in our reg
: iment He had got up to SO when com
pany G passed, aud did not learn th
full number. Gen. Cox laughed quit
heartily. He knows our regiment well
, Shermans army is still coming in
: The goth corps is passing through tow
{ now. vi.
1t is reported here that the Confedsr
stes are leaving Richmond and that lie
o is coming down here to "go for" u'
Well, let him come; we'll fight him
he is as big as an elephant.
= Our regiment is getting along finely
d and the boys are in the best of spirits
from the fact that We only have littl
over four months to serve. For about
= month after we get back hot biscuits an
butter, plum puddiugs, pies, tarts, an
= sweetmests of every description, wi
suffer / give notice now so that ou
friends will know just what is expected
IL The mails are very irregular aud "
don't get the Journal ouly about ha
the time
= Well, / will end this tiresome lette
by subscribing myself, 1890
= Very respectfully, r Ton.
L IL sn.rass MIA