The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-16

PETERSBURG.


h,nrs' duration on our left, near the
,npoma,tox, Wednesday evening. With
this exception, nothing of moment has
occurred on the Petersburg lines. The
nickel firing has, by tacit consent of both
nartics, very much slachcncd within the
mast few days. The enemy are quiet in
,lcir Entertainments on tlatchcr's run.
GRANT SENDING TROOPS TO THE NORTH
SIDE.
Throughout Tuesday night, tic rum
ling Of wagons and artillery were heard
On Grants lines in the neishborhood of
Deep Bottom. 1t is supposed that Grant
was transferring a heavy body of troops
70 the North side. This may simply be
- the return Of the troops sent over to
Petersburg TO participate in the Hatch
, 81 run affair last Monday.
FGOM NORTH CAROLINA.
II was reported yesterday morning
that our troops were cvacuating Will.
m.nston The report is not confirmed
by ohicial dispatches received YESTERDAY.
The Yankee papers state that General
Terry is still in the vicinity of Fort
Fisher, and waiting for General lIokc to
attack him. Hitherto the Yankee press
have represented Terry as about to march
towards Wilmington with the confident
expectation of taking the place Fort
Anderson proves a mere cttcctual OBJ
S,ruction than they had anticipated.
General Baker, in command of our
forces at G0ldshoro', reports to tho War
department. that he has reason to be-
ltcyc the enemy arc concentrating at
Newhcrn, and that they have with them
materials for repairing the railroad from
Ncw bern to kinston.
Scouts who came into kinston on the
night OF the 18th report that Foster is
i'll command at Newborn, and that two
thousand Of the Eighteenth army corps
have arrived there, making the number
Of troops at TIC post about five thousand.
It is reported, and believed, in kinston
that the enemy have landed two loco
motives and two transport loads of rail
road iron at Morchcad City. 1t is not |
.apprehended in kinston that the enemy
design al early movement in that dircc-
1lOn
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA - sHEI.MAN's
MOVEMENTS
No official dispatches were received
from any part OF South Carolina ycster>
day. At last accounts, as we stated in
yesterdays paper, the enemy held
on the Columbia Branch
railroad, aud our forces were falling back
towards Columbia. There was flying
report yesterday, which We could trace
to 40 reliable source, that there had been
diminishing on Tuesday evening within
a few miles Of Columbia. Our troops
abandoned Branchvilc last Sunday
night.
Wheeler, on last Friday, attacked and
whipped Fitzpatrick at Aiken, fifteen miles
northeast Of Augusta, and drove him
back five miles in the direction of Branch
Vile. The Augusta papers Of last We'd :
AcSday state, that, ut that time, SIocum
was at Windsor, ten miles east Of Aiken.
advancing on Augusta, his right flank
BENZ protected by the South Edisto
aver and bis left by kilpatrick's cavalry.
'wo days after this, Fitzpatrick was de-
atcd by Wheeler Slocnm has
It'll him the Fifteenth aud Six
scoth corps. The Fourteenth and
twentieth corps comprise the force.
pcratlng against Columbia and Charles
on. This leaves one corps Of Shcrman's
amE unaccountcd for We presume it
4s been left at Savannah BY the latest
"J7lcca through the Yankee papers, we
earn that Sherman was still at his head.
quarters at Beaufort.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS COMMITS
SAKY-GENERAL.
Generals Stephen Decatur Lee and .
aoc Hampton, rccently appointed
eHteaant generals, have been confirmed .
y Tue Confederate Senate. The promo.
Ion "t General Hampton makes him +
ank General Wheeler, and puts him in
'minahd ofall our cavalry now operating