The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-29
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Union Loss l,500.
Joe Johnston Completely FOIIed.


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BkbnEeae, Msrch 20.
ooLDsBoRo ocCUPKD-JUEC1Iog or sHER-
81. ssEflHAS AED sCH0FTKIBa l1a 1
l left the rear Of Shermans army,
the field of battle, on Wednesday,
March 81. Goldsboro Is ours. Scho-
field occupied it on tuesday afternoon
at three o'clock. The next morning
Gen. Terry was crossing ct Cox's bridge,
and the same morning sherman's pom
toor- 5ridee Was laid at the railroad
bridge, Gen. Shsrman has formed
junction with Generals Schoield and
Terry. il08M most
JOE JoHNsToE FALLS BACK TO sxTHFIELp
IL The enemy, having in vain stFiven 70
arrest Sherman, retired to Smithheld,
their rendezvous, on Wednesday morn
ing, leaving Sherman's road to his base
open and unopposed. The following is
AZ outline of Gen. sherman march 70
Goidsboro: ..s
THE FIGHT AT AvBRTsBoRo-HARDEEF FORCED
TO RETIRE.
General Shermans left wing, under
/ General Slocurn, hanked By General
Kilpatrick's cavalry, ewing to the ma
4 ture of the roads, was forced to move
from ayetteVille at some distance from
4 the right wing AT the same time the
4 left wing was ordered to make feint
toward Raleigh On the 10th instant
General Fitzpatrick, being in advance,
met che enemy, under General HaFdee,
four miles from Ayerysboro, at Moores
Cross roads, and, supported by infantry
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 difec-
ton Of Raleigh.
tbs. FIGHT NEAR REEToNyTLLE-rHE l4TH
c0kPs ONLY ENeLGED-DEsPERATE REBEL
CHARGEs AID REPULsEs.
0n the 10 Sunday, the l4sh Corps,
in advance, met the entire rebel forces
under General Johnston, three miles
from Bentonville at Morris form. A
single division, at first, having attempt
ed an advance of 8 hslf-mile in front of
the corps were overwhelmed, fisnked,
and driven back in some confusion,
upon a line already skiifnlly chosen by
Gen. Sloeum, hanked by rayine on
one side, the left, and swamp on the
other. Here hasty works were thrown
up, and here the 18th Corps, and par
ticulagly the division that had suffered
first, stood, and hurled back charge af-
ter charge OF the enemy, made with a
desperation unsurpassed upon any 9TH
er battlefield of the war.
The next morning, the Goth, the
right wing was brought up, and Tues
day, the 2Ist, was spent in intrenching
and diminishing.
SHERMAN FLAyEs THE ENEMY.
On Wednesday morning, 22d, Sher-
man ordered an advance toward Colds
boro by The united wings, and Johnston
prudently retired to Smithfield with
all his force, being defeated in his pur-
pose-
sREKcH FROM joe JOHNSTON
The prisoners report that Johnston
made q speech on the morning of the
18th, in which he announced that he
had forty thousand men--enough TO
whip half Of Sherman army; that now
was the crisis, and that sherman must
be prevented from forming junction
with Schofield at all hazards; that he
would whip Sherman wing BY wing.
ll THE ENEMY coMfLErELY FoILED.
Sherman's army feel now more irwin
chile than ever A single corps of q
single wing resisted the desperate pur-
pose of the enemy for defeating in de
tail Sherman's entire left.
aoLDsBoRo II BE BASE or OPERATIONS
80 --THE RAILROAD RESTORED.
Goldsboro is a pyramidal base, stand.
ingon two railroads, one of which Chat
via Kinston), must be fully in operation
as | write.
The Wilmington Road win also be
ready for use in few days On the
latter road General Terry found six 10
comotives at Magnolia Station.
A few days delay at Goldsboro will
be necessary to refit Sherman's army,
who, though ragged, dirty and shoe
less, are the most fcOnsented army in
the field to-day.
CASUALTIES.
Our casualties on the 18th have not
been determined, but our loss that
day IS estimated at 500; the enemy's
fully double.
REBEL COLONEL RHETT CAPTURED,
Colonel Rhett, commandant at Fort
Sumter, Is a prisoner in Kilpatrioks
hands
DIFHcGLTIEs OF sHERHAE's MARCH
The condition of the roads eneoun-
tered by Sherman was terrible. Colo,
mel Joel, Quartermaster of the Goth
Corps, told me that thirty out of fifty
miles this side of Fayetteville, even,
had to be eorduroyed, yet, without ar
resting his rate Of progress, which aY-
eraged ten miles day.
Sherman sent word 10 SchOfeld that
he would be at Faysor Depot on Sum
day. He actually kept his word, and
little better, the right wing, with which
he rested, making that point on Sun
day night
Col Pierce, Gath Ohio, commanding
a brigade, and General bearing were
wounded in the battle of the Och inst.
The 2Gth Corps was brought upon
the lett, in the fight at Bentonville,
but the burden and heat OF the day,