New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-18
GEN. SRERMAN'S MARCH.
TIE OCCUPATION OF FAYETTEVILLE.
Interesting Details Of the Advance
Through South Carolina.
COLUMBIA BURNED BY The REBELS.
Gain Efforts Of our Troops to Save the City
WADE HAMPTON TIE INCENDIARY
THE MARCH 70 NORTH CAROLINA.
Great Captures Of Tcwns, Arsenals,
Fcunderies, and Other Property.
KiIpatriek's Fight with Hampton.
THE TUG THAT WENT ALONE UP THE RIVER
TO SHERMAN.
Great Captures Of Towns, Arsenals,
Fcunderies, and Other Property.
KiIpatriek's Fight with Hampton.
THE TUG THAT WENT ALONE UP THE RIVER
TO SHERMAN.
ZEN Our spscisl Correspondent

F1en Our specis Correspondent
FYYTTEvILIE, " G., March IL, 1860.
The army Of Gen. Sherman has reached TINS
eoirt after march across South Carolina AID part Of
North Csroins Amos. wholly without opposition. ~
tnters the town where Il opens communication WIZ
Wilmington by the Cape Fear River in as good condi
lion IN almost every respect when II len Savannah
snd seems neither fatgued by its long Journey nor 10
demand either rest equipment before u resumes lts
Iesistless advance. OF what it mas already accom-
plished ] send you hurried sketch
Aboas the 18th ofJanusry all preparations had been
sde fcr the opening of Shefmans Carolina campaign
The 18th and 18th Corps had been conveyed to Beau
for1 by transports Tie l4h and Goth Corps had been
takon up Sisters Ferry with division OF the 18th
Gen Corse and Kilpatrick's cavalry, which vas me
last TO 20 up. The Eth Corps under MsjorGen Frank
Blair moved from Ioeotaso landing, where he had
slight stirn.sh With the enemy The weather suddenly
broke into rain and the whole country about Savannah
was deiuged which retarded for some time the advance
~ the army the advance column as il commenced it,
line Of merch being actually csught in the ce-swamps
and surrounded by water where they forced to re-
main fes several days being unable either 70 advance
or retire. -,
Our pont,srs tie Savannah had been swept away
npd several men aud teams had been lost January 20,
and goth Corps took upthes line of march from Sisters
Ferry On the evening Of the 10Th the ,th Corps broke
camp near Poeotalgc. and moved toward the Comba.
bee, BY the Savannah AID Charleston road. The only
force they met were slight bodies Of the eneDy's cav
airy On Che 30tl the 18th Corps marched along the
Beaufort road toward McPhersonviue. The 18th and
9Th Corps commanded by Gems. Logan and
Blair. both under Gen. Oliver o. Howard. formed
VIC NJ Ile lei
wing was under Moior.Gen. Socum comprising
she l4h and Goth CorIF commanded by Gems. Williams
and Davis On tie extreme left and partly in advance
vas Kpatricks cavalry. On the LIST of February the
advance Of the 18th Corps reached Hickory Hin, Gen
Charles r. Woods division leading. As the army
marched through McPhersonyile they set fire TO the
<ew wooden shsnties composing that town--!he army
having q keen that they were reversDg the soil
Of South Carolina itself and occasionally giving vent
70 their feelings BY such acts as might elsewhere have
seemed Dnwariks SO determined. moreover, were
the soldiers 10 leave some real traces OF their march
that they even forgot at times the distinction between
friend and foe and Beaufort which for three years
has been under the Union flag. they pOunced upon
fencen and destroy that Of Father French and made
At necessary FOR double guards to be posted at various
places in the town.
For the frst two or three DAYS Of the march toward
Hickory Hill the roads INSTRUCTED by fallen ium'
Der at the different swamp crossings South Caro-
sna swamp Ossng is place whore sunken road hos
Aetn carried through the swamp below the level Of TIE
ground and so TO reach solid bottom. On either SIDE
II it is the mor5ss and the water o,eGfows the road
iuelf so that no little caution is required 10 keep the
path Such places afford great facilities for obsrcts
the march OF army, but despite Of all obstacles thu
columns pushed through and at place did the enemy
maize anything like a determined stand.
Hickory Hill was the place fixed apon for the iGac
Zion Of the wings of the army, but tie len wing was
40 much DELAYED by the condition of The roads that 1t
lid not reach that place til two days amer tie time up
,,ofnted The Coosawatchie swamps rligh have given
Mt this point an easy defense 10 tie enemy. bat 40 ehoi
sss made by the Rebels 10 avail themselves Oft
On the I'd Of Tebuar the 18th Corps, with WI ci was
siding at tie tDe marched Tor Duck Creek corduroy
ing the roads all dey long The rain again begun to
fall sud occasoned little delay in repairing the
roads Meantius the 18th Corps Uas forcing iis va
scross the Salkehatciie at Rivers Bridge. Tho I'd
vsnce in this enterprise was takcn by Gen. Mowers
Division and they carried tie position Win
a loss OF less than hundred in Killed and wounded
AL The wounded cent back to Beaufort The
work offorcng the position was cone II the most gal
lart manner The Fifteenth Corps crossed At Bcau.oTt
burg On the Augusta and Charleston Railroad The
Seventeenth Corps striking The railroad az MidvcJ,
sboot light miles Bfanch,ie. The place Is ne
residence OF the novelist Gilmore Smms, wiose horce
and library carefully guarded by our troops
About this time tie forageIs began TO spread ovo
IRE country, end in irregular and regular parties went
diminishing over the country. Thcse eaterp. ,ine
characters were known by the names OF "Immmors
Smoke house Rangers" anu "Do Boys" i bunmor
10 nm individual who by favor Of wagon master be-.
comes possessed Of broken down mule else stai;s
need be- foot in either case, Of course. armed viii
las musiet. lie makes hs way INTO tie eIory = coai.
sry. finds horses in numbers ny help OF Ike negroes
L.ches team TO wagon. loeds or Il al the stores
supplies be can lind in the nearest hVuse. mounts bis
negroes on the rest OF the horscs and fctus with his
ypOls lie never objects TO gold votches OF sitter
sate "ifhe can find them in swamp nile from any
house. These men were sirGgRlers not in rear
but in front Of the srmy, and they went before i Ike
cloud being often twenty 10 thirty miles in sd,cpce
ihc head OF the column They wOuli fight anything.
Three bummcrs" together would AT any tine attack
accompany Of Rebel cavalry, sBd in favorable ciIcum.
stances would disperse them and capture tLcr booty
With the exception OF Columbia alone every town
In South Carolina through ubic the sIIny passed wa
Sfst catered BY the bgmpers. AT Chesterfield they
Ssse two days and af ahead Of the army ile Whole
corps having ecngresaied al th.s point They rugged
~ fso logs for eSinon seDi fag ahead ~ fe iown.