The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-23
Tar MARCH NoRraNARD.

/ EELA AUaAl4uAA VIC AAElEuEA ANkNuNN
Charlotte, destroying the railroad as We
went The 20th Corps entered Wins
borough, on the 2lst, about forsy-tWo
miles from Columbia, on the Charlotte
road On entering the town, some OF
| the largest buildings were found 20 be
on fire. Upon inquiry, It was discov.
! cred that the houses bad been fred by
| Mrs Lauderdale who had a quantity of
cotton stored in the buildings, and
which she said SHE would destroy to
keep the Yankees from getting it. Ia
this way a large portion Of this very
pretty town was burned Here we
found many rebels from Charleston
who had moved their household furn :
ture, etc, TO safe place (as they
thought) from Yankee invasion. The
town was carefully taken care of, aud
the guards left by General 6eary were
sent by the rebels, when they entered
the town after US, unframed into our
lines
We were now getting on revolution
airy ground, striking the Catawba river
at Rock Hill, where Sumter fought his
actions While at this river rain storm
came on, which rendered the roads al
most impassible The 10Th corps cross
ed the river FIRST, and got through with
great difficulty KilpatricE's cavalry
followed, after whom came the l4th
corps While this corps was crossing,
the bridge gave way, and the greater
portion OF It AOated off down the stream.
The bridge was finally repaired, the
tugs from the mule harness being an
chored and cabled, aud the l4th corps
crossed The army of the Tennessee
crossed about twenty miles below, meet
ing little OF 40 opposition.
The next point of interest was the
Hanging Rock, also connected with
Revolutionary memories When about
one days march from Hanging Rock
some Of our bummers captured a couple
Of banks which were IN transih, in four
iron safes In the place itself was
found all Of Gen Ripley's private his.
tory Of the siege of Charleston. This
gives US historical data from the high
est rebel official sources. ali the prop
erty found was at once taken to the
headquarters Of Gen. Williams, COM
mand the Twentieth corps, the money
carefully counted and turned over 70
the United States government
The next town OF importance was
Chesterfield, which was entered By the
forageFs two days in advance Of the
army At the same time the 18th and
ITth Corps entered the town Of Cheraw
General Mowers division in advance
The command of that officer fought
their way in with skirmish line, bat
had no serious opposition. We cap
tured st this place % guns and large
quantity of fixed ammunition. Among
the guns wss a Blaksly gun, presented
70 the sovereign State Of South Caro-.
lima by her citizens, resident abroad,
December, 1851" This gun was used
on Morris Island during the first b0m-
bardment Of Fort Sumter, and with il
the rebels claim to have shot away the
Rag staff Of that folk On the day Of
President Linooln's reinauqurationf
March 18th, 1865, General Mower
captured this gun, turned il
quickly on the retreating rebe.s, and
gave them a National shotted salute,
Cor which they furnished al the mate
rials. Owing 70 The disaster at Colum.
bia, the powder captured here was
handled very carefully, yet an explo- |
sion occurred which seriously wounded |
one man, and more or less injured the !
buildings and the town Many Charles
tonisns we're IN the town who had es-
capped from Charleston with their house
hold furniture, &c Among the ca
lures was the entire stock Of wine Of /
Mr.. Rsvenel, one Of the most celebrat-
ed in al the South.