The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-15
GENERAL SHERMAN.
The Late Fight at Kinston
A New Base of Army Supplies
The Fighting AT Kinston-Progress OF
the COnfict-Repeated Assaults Of
the Rebels-ProsPects Of Victory TO
The Fedsrais- 900 Rebels Captured.
Press Dispatch.

Press Dispatch
New YORK, March l4.-The Herald's
correspondent from in front of Kinston
North Carolina, dating the 11th, gives
the following account of the fighting
there:
On Wednesday, the 9Th, the enemy
consisting of HOke's division, made de-
termined effort to turn our left flank
They came up rather Unexpectedly and
furiOusly, and the consequence was the
loss on our part of a large portion of two
regiments, who were flanked by superior
numbers. The left of the line, held by
the 2d division, General Carter, fought
desperately, resorting to the bayOnet
when their ammunition was exhausted
To compensate for the losses here, Col
Sarage, of the l2th New York cavalry,
made detOur in his near and captured
nearly one hundred prisoners
The same afternoon an attack was
made OH our right and repulsed without
loss Gen Schofield came up i'll the at
tcrnoon and assumed command. Capt.
Fish. of the 18th New York Cavalry, had
lost two small howitzers, and Capt kel,
sey of the artillery. had lost a Napoleon
gun.
We had taken perhaps 2OOprisoners
duHng the day. a., ,,u
fnllv regained his original position and
continued to hold it. The enemy charged
nnon him three times in the forenoon
and were each time easily repulsed, with
some loss of life and a small loss of pris-
oners The forenoon was mostly occu-
pied with light skirmishing along the
whole line. We still hold our original
line, ample breastworks having been
erected and stout hearts occupying both
them and the skrmish pits
During the night and morning of the
9th and 10th, the rebel forces again belch-
ed forth. They had evidently learned
something that urged them to unusual
desperation, and we afterwards learned
that il must have been the reception OF
intelligence by them that Couch was
coming up overland to Join Cox. This
corxse necessitated a furious and speedy
onset upon Cox, in order to annihilate
him before Couch should come up. All
night long they charged again and again,
making six or seven different charges,
amid the roar of musketry and cannon
that was deafening and terrible as it
swept and surged through the night air.
They had driven back our skirmish line
from their rife pits to the breastworks'
and they seemed determined to pour their
hordes over into them. But they were
sent bounding back time after time, and
finally on the morning of the 10th, as
they attempted another flank movement
on our left, it is said that we took from
them an entire regiment of Alabamlans
From this time their ardOr began to dl-
minish, and yesterday afternoon, when |
left the immediate scene of action, there
was every prospect that we would soon
regain the skirmish pits and win hand
some victory over the maddened foe
We have probably taken from the COM
mencement last evening not far from
1000 prsOs Our 55 entire o,d6od loss from and ,nd
commencement, in killed, Wounaeu 1e1 anu anu
missing, cannot be over 1000. The Col,
onel Of the 11sth Ohio was severely
wounded