The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-31
WAR NEWS.

The Secretary of War in an official bulletin
announces that General Sherman was at Colds
boro', n. c., on last Tuesday, and that since
Saturday night no movements on either side
have been made before Petersburg or Richmond,
Va. General Grant, in an official despatch, da-
ted at City Point on Monday morning, reports
the losses of the second, sixth and ninth corps
in the battle of Saturday to be one hundred
and Slxty-six killed and one thousand two hun
dred and one wounded, and nine hundred and
eighty-fve missing. By these three Corps one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three prison.
ers were captured. After repulsing the enemy
on Saturday, the Second and Sixth Corps push
ed forward and captured the entrenched picket
line of the Confederates. An effort was made
by the enemy TO retake the ground they had lost,
and fighting was kept up until after o. clock at
night. The Confderates lost very heavily, and
the next morning Sunday sent in a tlag-of-
truce asking permission, which was granted, to-
bury their dead and remove the wounded be-
tween their forticatons and what had been their
picket line.
General Sherman is officially reported to have
been at Goldsboro' on the 22d. On the evening
Of the 2lst General Schofeid reached Goldsboro',
and he was not then in communication with
Sherman. The World has a despatch dated
Kingston the 22d, to the effect that Sherman and
Johnston were entrenched opposite each other,
on the south side of the Neuse. According to
this despatch there had been continuous and Sc
we're fighting every day, all the way from Fay
etteviile, and very desperate contests on Sunday
and Monday of last week.
The Havana steamer brings information that
the Confederate steamer Owl had sailed for Mata-
moras, preceded about half an hour by the Uni
ted States gunbo,t Cherokee and followed by
Spanish man of war General Preston. who
reached Havana on the Owl, is said TO have cir
culated the report that Macmillan is to recog-
nze the Coniederacy and open Tampico as port
to adjudicate maritime prizes
One Of the Washington papers processes TO have
information from North Carolina up to Thurs
day, the 23d inst, on which day it is stated
junction was established at Cnx's Branch, six
miles west of Goldsboro', North Carolina, be-
tween Gems Schofed and Terry's forces and
the right wing of General Shermans army
conerel C~l.ofsid ,..o-ea ON dviusbo,u' to
this point on Wednesday and there he found
Gen. Terry laying pontoons across the Neuse
river, and on the next day the advance of Gen.
Sherman's right column came in. The Confed-
crate Gen. Hardee is reported to have been de-
feated on the 10th by Gen. Slocum's command,
and fell back to Bentonsville. Here Hardee was
reinforced and met another column of Gen Shcr-
mans army, over whom he gained temporary
advantage, but afterwards retreated across the
Neuse river in northerly direction.
series of dispatches from the army cores
pendent of the Associated Press, furnish Details
of the attack made by the Confederates on
Fort Steadman early on Saturday morning,
and their subsequent repulse by the Ninth Corps,
OF the cap ure, Later in the day of line of rifle
pits by the SIKH Corps and of smother fight
that took place about dark near Hatcher's run,
in which the Second Corps was engaged, and
took from the enemy number OF prisoners. The
Third Maryland regiment took part in the fight
ing on Saturday.
The same Union flag that hoated over Fort
Sumter at the time Of the first Confederate assault,
is to be raised over it on the l4h of April by
Brevet Major General Anderson, in accordance
with an order OF the President, with appropriate
military ceremonies, in which the feet will par
ticpate. salute Of 100 guns will be fired from
Fort Sumter and from every Confederate battery
that had ever fired upon IT.