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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Secretary of War: "General Echols reports that detachments of Vaughan's cavalry struck the railroad beyond Knoxville at Sweetwater and Athens, capturing the garrison at both places. Sixty men of the Twentieth Ohio regiment, with horses and equipments, were taken. "[Signed] R. E. Lee." From the South. The last of the Confederate forces left Charleston during Friday night, and the next day the Federals entered. The three gunboats belonging to the Confederate navy went up Cooper river. --Nearly all the Government stores in the city were safely brought off and the cotton in the place burnt. All the citizens who could get out came away. There seems to have been some tolerably heavy skirmishing, but no general fighting, before our forces evacuated Columbia. The South Carolina railroad depot took fire from a Yankee shell thrown into it, and some ammunition there exploded, killing two or three persons and wounding six others. We learn that the raiding party of Y