Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-30

|Jured and the depot facilities are fine cap.
tured here seven ears, and General Terry has
captured two locomotives and two cars, which
he is now using.
| [Signed, j. NJ ScHoFlELD,
Major General
FROM NORTH CAROLINA
New York, March 25.-The reports in
Richmond of the fighting in North Carolina,
as given BY the Dispatch of that city, In Gen
Grants official dspatch, do not conform with
those in Raleigh; and published in the papers
of that place 5tt. ),
The Raleigh Confederate, of the 2lst, says
it hopes within afs* days, to give cheering
Intelligence. So fhp every, thing is encourag-
ing. In the affair which occurred few days
since, between Hardee.s and Sherman forces,
we repulsed successfully five assaults upon
our lines, and held our position until the OBJ
ject was effected In drawing; off we lost two
guns, because the horses had been killed Our
loss in the affair, was about 400 killed and
wounded; the enemy's about 1000. Of the
battle on Sunday, the correspondents state that
very decided advantage was gained by our
troops, the enemy being driven several miles
with heavy loss.
We captured some artillery The first bat
tie occurred on the 10th, near the Junction of
Black with the South River, on the Fayette-
vile and Goldsboro road, some fifteen miles
below Bentonville, in the vicinity of which
place the battle of Sunday occurred. So it
would appear the rebels fell back fifteen miles,
after gaining victory on the 10th, in which
the Union loss was bloody one. 1t is evi-
dent no decisive hattie had been fought
The Richmond Sentinel says: "Goldsboro
has been evacuated; at last accounts the en-
emy had not entered
The same paper says there ID band ofreb-
ell deserters prowling in Darke county, Virgil
MIA, plundering the people.
Photographic Correspondence Gin. Commercial
GoLDsBoRo OCCUPIED.
Baltimore, March 26.-I left the rear of
Sherman army, the field of BATTLE on Wednes-
day, March q. Goldsboro is ours Schofeld
occupied it on Tuesday afternoon at o clock.
The next morning Gen. Terry was crossing at
Coxs bridge, and the same morning Sher-
mans pontoon bridge was laid at the railroad
bridge. Gen. Sherman has formed a junction
with Generals Schofeld and Terry
JOE JOHNSON FALLS BACK TO sMlTHFILD.
The enemy having'in vain strivcn to arrest
Sherman, retired to Smithfeld, their rendez-
vous, on Wednesday morning, leaving Sher-
mans road to his base open and unopposed
The following is an outlineyof Gen Sherman
march to Goldsboro: s'.., -,
49,. THE FIGHT AT AvERYsDoEo. ,s.t
Gen. Shernan's lett wing, under Gen Slo-
cum, hanked by Gen. Kilpatrick's cavalry,
owing to the nature of the roads, was forced
to move from Fayetteville at some distance
from the right wing At the same time, the
left wing was ordered to make teint toward |
Raleigh. On the 18th inst, Gen Fitzpatrick,
being in advance, met the enemy, under Gen
Elardee, four miles from Aveiysboro, at
Moores Crossroads, and, supported by the in
fantry of the 10th corps his cavalry found the
enemy, and dismounted, fighting, side by side
with the infantry, drove him, and forced him
to retire in the direction of Raleigh.
THE FIGHT NEAR BENToNvILLE.
On the 10Th (Sunday,) the 18th corps, in
advance, met the entire rebel force, under
Gen. Johnston, three miles from Bentonvile,
ut Morris farm. A single, division, at first,
having attempted an advance of half mile
in front of the corps, were overwhelmed, flank
ed, and driven back, in some confusion upon
a line already skillfully chosen by Gen. Slo-
cur, hanked by ravine on one side, the left,
and swamp on the other Here hasty works
we're thrown up, and here the l4th Corps, and
the division that had suffered first,
Stood and hurled back charge after charge of
;he enemy, made with a desperation unsur-
passed upon any other battlefield of the war.
The next morning, the Goth, the right wing
vas brought up, and Tuesday, the 2lst, was
spent in intrenching and skrmishing
SHERMAN FLANKs THE ENEMY.
On Wednesday morning, 22d, Sherman or
Tered an advance toward Godsboro by the
United wings, and Johnston prudently retired
o Smithfeld with all his force, being defeated
n his purpose
SPEECH FROM JOE JOHNSTON.
The prisoners report that Johnston made q
peech on the morning of the 10Th, in which
lie announced thathe had forty thousand men
to whip half Of Sherman's army;
hat now was the crisis, and that Sherman
must be prevented from forming junction
NTH Schofed at all hazards; that he would
Whip Sherman wing by wing.
THE ENEMY qpMpLETELY FoILED.
Shermans army feel now more invincible !
han ever A single corps of single wing c
esisted the desperate purpose of the enemy I
or defeating in detail Sherman's entire left. !
GoLDsBoRo TO be- A BASE OF OPERATIONS. s
Goldsboro is pyramidal base, standing on
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