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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
too late to capture Colonel Richardson, of Lee's Staff, and four soldiers, who had just left there — they having vamoosed just as the Don hove in sight. Sherman's movements. A dispatch from Washington to the Baltimore American, dated the 11th inst., says: A letter dated Wilmington, March 6th, was received here to day, in which it is stated in positive terms, that a scout from Sherman's army had reached General Terry's headquarters, who left our forces in occupation of Cheraw, South Carolina, the terminus of the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, and but very few miles from North Carolina. Nothing but cavalry skirmishes had taken place. The army had rested for some days, and had found very fair subsistence along the route. The advance into North Carolina was a certainty, this letter adds, by the first of March. The scout started for Newbern; but learning of the occupation of Wilmington, reached that place much sooner.--The source of this intelligence is perfectly c