The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-30
The Occupation OF GoIdsbOrO-Fight
with Wade Hampton's Cayniry-De.
tniIs Of the Advnnce-Tremend
Depletion Of the Rebel Armies in
North Caroiina-Efi feet Of the Con-
ceu,ration Policy OF the Rebels

GoLDSBORO, \. C. March II, via I
WASHINGTON, March Oil p. NJ
Goldsboro was occupied by the forces
under General Schotield at o'clock yes
terday afternoon He met with no Sc
rious opposition from the rebel column
confronting him, General Hoke quietly
withdrawing withoBB atts5rrtfDg .faA
risk of an engagement. Therewas, how
ever some lively skirmishing between
our cavalry and some of Wade Hamp-
toms horsemen, in which the latter
were rather roughly used. and lost n num-
Der of prisoners The news was brought
in here from the front by Capt. Prince.
of the Twelfth New York cavalry. whose
regiment. in command of Col Savage,
was thrown ont to protect the right
flank of General Schofelds line of
march The twelfth had several men
wounded. but none killed or captured
They are said to have behaved handsome
IL. and retook nearly thirty prisoners,
carried off bv the rebels in the ate.eSght
between Kinston and Newbern.
The cavalry skirmished around Colds
bOro and entered at tho rear OF the town.
The direct advance was made by the IN
fantry, which hadno difficulty i'll driving
in the skirmish line of the enemy ough
the town and beyond Prisoners were
plentiful, but the main body ofthe reb-
els retreated before it was possible to
come up with them, or cut them
off By halfpast three the nation
al flag was waving over the place, and
Gen Schofeld was in full and undispnted
possession. The inhabitants submitted
TO the fortune of war which had once
again brought them under the authority
and protection of the United States Gov
ernment as gracefully as could have
been expected And, though our tired,
dysty veterans were not received with
overwhelming demonstrations of enthu-
slams. there were not wanting evidences
of welcome from a considerable part OF
the population TwoOr three folsh peo-
pie fred from their houses upon the flag
after il was hoisted. But acts of impo-
tent spite of this description can seldom
be traced to their actual perpetrators,
and have not heard Of retaliation or
punishment having been visited on any
body
There were no defenses of any kind
constructed around GoldsbOro. and no
preparations whatever effected for max
ing a stand against Schohelds we'll
planned and really irresistible advance
The rebels are clearly carrying ont
their policy of concentration. with a
resolution and in sacrifiClal spirit, from
which no remonstrance of the North Car
olinians and no loss of morale to their
men and prestige to their cause can dl-
vert them. Yet the way In which they
are abandoning this state Is operating
disastrously in more ways than one
Noacombdtdnts are giring up the CoatfdTdcy
IN DESPAIR. and tie soldiers belonging 10 North
Carolina regiments are desertiag by The score
and eren hundred OF over nine hundred
men of the sixty-seventh North Carolina
regiment. whom the rebel Colonel Whit
ford brought up the other day for the
purpose of reinforcing Hoke, over SIX
hundred have dispersed and skedaddled
for their homes in various parts OF this
and adjoining states In the sixty-si1th
North Carolina the detection has been
almost as bad. All along Schoheld's
march, squads and sometimes nearly
companies would give themselves up to
our cavalry, simply asking 10 be paroled,
so that they could return 10 the farm aud
the cabin frsm which a TemOrseless con-
scription had torn them. / have heard
old residents of this desolate little vii
lage declare their belief that General
Hoke has lost about one-half Of his once
famous division in this way.
General Schofeld's position at Colds
boro. where he has temporarily estab
Eshed headquarters, places him within
easy communicative, and almost within
supporting distance of General Terry
The hero of Fort Fisher has been con-