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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o communicate concerning movements in the field was up to Friday afternoon, the 10th. Some of the heaviest fighting there has been since the corps commanded by General Cox reached the vicinity of Kinston occurred on Friday. The rebels had evidently learned that General Couch, with a portion of the Twenty-third corps, was not far off, and would soon joint Cox; and it urged them to extraordinary desperation. They charged again and again upon our works, making ten or a dozen separate charges through the day. Generally they spent their fury upon the left, but some of the time they would charge upon the entire line, vainly hoping that the momentum of so large a body would break down everything. Friday night and Saturday morning Couch's forces came up from towards Wilmington, and effected a junction with Cox, which gave us an advantage, of course, of which the rebels were not slow to become informed. So they at once began to fall back, abandoning all further opposition this si