The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-03-22
The Campaign la North Car
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The Campaign la North Car
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On the authority of onr own correspoD-
dent writing March 10 fiom Gen. Cox 5
headquarters near kiDstcn, We know
that Bragg has met with repulse instead
Of victory on tie battle field of which
he boasted. The defeat which the Rebels
sustained was on the day following that
on which Bragg claimed yictory,aud We
are in possession only OF few details IN
the letter of our CORES spondent oftne first
days action. The column from NeTbeCn
under Gen. Cox command had advanced
/ by the 9th OF March to within four miles
Of Kinston without opposition. On the
\ 9th the head of that column was attacked
by the united forces Of Hill, Hcke, aad
Bragg, aud being heavily outnumb bered,
sustained a defeat in which we lost two
regiments. 90 the following day the ac
ton was renewed, and the enemy are
strangely, but we suppose truly, reported
/ to have been reinforced by S. D. Lees
corps, from Hoods army. Their assault
was nevertheless repulsed. and they were
at the same time attacked in flank and
routed with loss 4 second assault left them
/ still worse off, and they retreated in con
/ fusion, leaving their dead and wounded
in our hands Whether the two regi-
ments taken the day before were recover
/ ed We do not know. 1t may be that Gen.
/ Cox, finding SO heavy force in front Of
( him, will delay his movement on Colds
borough, but if Bragg holds his ground
where will he 90 when Sherman has tax.
en- Raleigh
The actual position OF Gen. Sherman is
/ still matter Of conjecture to some extent
but there can Of course be DO doubt Of
the fact, as stated by our correspondent,
/ that he is we'll across the North Caroliua
I line, and steadily advancing northward.
+ The Rebels Of course know this fact, aud
know something OF Sherman's line Of ad-
vance, but they chose to conceal it, be-
cause they can say nothing that does not
reveal their weakness and his strength
/ The cavalry skirmish between Gems Kill
iratrick and Hampton would have been
very differently reported If the latter had
met with any good fortune.
-Sheridan's dispatch Is probably the
the most important watch that officer ev,
( er penncd, for it announced at this crit
ical moment that north of the Jane RIv.
er there is 10 longer any communication,
whether by rail or canal, between Lynch
borg and Richmond. TIE railroad is de-
stroyed from Charlottesville 20 within
twenty miles of Lynchburg, including
many bridges, some of them more than
FIVE hundred feet long The canal is
broken up at Intervals west Of Columbia TO
to Lyncbburg, the locks being destroyed,
and at New Canton the great guard lock
4 is broken away and the mighty current
Of the James itself pours into the morrow
bed Of the canal, and sweeps It's banks
away in continuous overflow impossible
Ito be checked. And it is this canal which
Sheridan says has been the great feeder"
of Richmond West of the Riyauna riv.
er Sheridan found himself in country
abounding 10 supplies, and he has clean
ed it from one end to the other of mills
factories, stores, provisions-egerythiug
that made it valuable to the Rebellion.
Lee has not so much as attempted TO
stop Sheridan's destructive course Be.
tween Grant who keebs his hold relent
lcssly on Richmond, and Sherman whose
advance upon the doomed capital nothing
can avert, the Rebel General in Chief has
found no leisure to bestow on the swift
movement of SherIdan-stiI less has he
been able TO spare troops to resist the col
umns which spread devastation through
the valley Of the James. More than ever
before it begins to be apparent how over.
= whelmingly the Rebel armies are outnum.
= bered, and how heIplessIy Lee must sub
nit to see himself either shut up, or drly-
en- from his capital. IF he cannot save
) his railroads he cannot save anything -
He holds now one road to LVuchburg and
one TO DanvIle, but single blow may
suoder both Of them, nor does Lee know
that Sheridan may not at any moment de.
liver that blow. Shoridan's present sue.
cess and his present position show that he
may attempt almost anything, and thar
unless he attacks Lynchburg itself be may
ride the country through without meet
ing an enemy in arms - Tribune Mar, II
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