| Show CAMPAIGN h blowing 1 brief brier synopsis sis gives u ge tf idea of the doings dolp g s of shermans shep Sher mans ar n rom 01 om the time of leavin leaving 0 lavan savan na nill anil their arrival at fayetteville fr I 1 it Jip meral merai awai awal shermans Sher mans great at campaign ti pa i ign liu lin t r u the interior of ot south gouth and north soolina has been attended with extraordinary y results which may by be summed up as follows fourteen elbie cities S hundreds 0 miles of railroad sands of bales of cotton have ed 85 cannon prisoners and animals have been captured and over fifteen thousand white and black refugees have been set free general sherman moved his army in two columns each strong enough to resist any enemy could bring against near cearto to get geth er to concentrate should abarge a large largo force torce threat threaded th e ted ed either the fifteenth am deven Seventeenth and t corps commanded by G logan and blair both under ge G oliver 0 howard formed the ri right night t wing of the army the left was un uner r maj gen slocum comprising thi th ith and soth corps commanded by geis williams and davis da vis on the ex ses sis arne ne left and partly in advance was Kil ell patricks cavalry shermans Sher mans first object was to destroy the network of railroads running through south carolina connecting charleston with richmond augusta columbia and other important points in this be he fully succeeded compelling them to evacuate Chir charleston leston and rendering augusta and other points of no military value to the enemy the right wing win after destroying the railroads communicating with charleston pushed directly for columbia which was occupied on the morning of the of february it wa disco discovered discover vei ed on advancing through h the city that wade hamlton hampton had had large quantities of cotton piled in the street the bales having been cut open the cotton pulled out put loosely and all ready forthe for the torch in several places it was actually on fire A high wind was blowing at the time which had scattered the cotton through the tees trees andon the house tops and piazzas and verandahs verandas veran vera lida iada dahs hs the emet being in jn U many lany places as if a snow storm had fallen an the city eity xii the cotton had been fired by the rebels and notwithstanding the efforts of our troops to stay the flames a great reat part of the city was laid in ashes e before before the following morning nearly i 1 houses being destroyed the day e following the arsenal ind and inq public build i ings ggs were destroyed iles troyed sherman found a 43 heavy guns stand of sm small smail all ali arins rounds of fixed ammunition and ia great agrest portion of machinery that had bad been sent there from charleston for foro e safety at the time of the evacuation of i that place the machine shops which f were of vast lir lin importance ordnance d 1 stores of all kinds one complete battery y of blakely guns with chaissons caissons eais cais sons and jim lim iber chests were destroyed and thrown a into the river niver ij on feb 20 the army resumed iu ita a march northward proceeding toward n charlotte destroying the railroad as it p went 42 miles from ie columbia was reached on the and a w was as found to be on fire the torch hava ing been applied to several buildings i containing cotton the town of cam r tr den was next occupied bales 0 cotton together with immense amount of government ovorn ment property and several id publio buildings baingi destroyed OH oia n the theS ad dinst int cheral cheraw on the northern t line of south carolina about 90 miles from columbia was occupied here our forces cap captured tureA twenty five pieced w artillery oty oti among which was a blake es 13 ida lya iva gun with the d tigh ti nto n alto to the sovereign state of caro al at lini lina by a citizen abroad march 4 a 1861 they hey also captured twelve cars one locomotive eighteen tons of powder several thousand bales of cotton is Is and i a large supply of stores in the ab hos hog hospitals ams they also found roundabout about two hun is dred prisoners from cheraw cheral the arat my marched directly diorec ly to fayetteville p where the united states arsenal and a d large quantity of machinery ammini of tion ma stores es ac were captured es the left mft wing of the army under st gen slocum marched from savannah d toward the line of the au augusta usta rail eail aa 30 road which was effectual effectually li destroyed de stroye d a 4 together ither with an immense amount of property along mong the route B afore reach columbia the two wings odthe of the aras united and then pro rd eed ced in massed column sol 0 yut tuh tt cavalry engagement of kilpat nf n f rick tick kith with the rebel hampton took place bel bei on n fanst about 15 16 miles from iss ISA fayetteville Kil kii patricks camp was es the whole df vf hamptons Ham ea cavalry ay alry valry itai with such impetuosity as to eive reve stive rive our men into a swamp in the rear of their headquarters KU patriek patrick himself whoa was at th the time timo asleep managed to ek escape gape cape in pant pantaloons alowis and clippers hastily ref reformed ormed hisam his men cha charged rge d the enemy in turn got possession of his guns again agaid turned them thom at once on his headquarters and drove out the rebels As they were leaving one end of the town MI patrIck patriek entered by the other uther got at his flag and tied it on a staff stamm charged again 0 and completely routed the enemy leaving sixty of their dead on the field killing gen A aiken alken men nen and taking a number of prisoners kilpat ackes loss in this affair killed wounded and missing was less than according to his Us off omm leiai official report two other cavalry fights of or moment took place the first february fe breary ath when hen the first alabama and fifth den Ren kentucky tucky of if col spencers brigade command mond mand attacked gen hagams alabama m r I 1 a ae of the ninth twelfth and eighty first alabama captured the general headquarters flag and five other colors scattering the rebel brigade all over the country the other action was in the attempt to gain a crossing of the broad river biver some distance above columbus major estes and captain hayes of Kil patricks staff with a small force charged through the railroad bride bridge which the enemy had set on fire and and succeeded in saving sa in g it the he day after Sherma shermans shermany Sher mans nl arrival at fayetteville capt ainsworth reached rea blied that place from gilmin wilmington agton on a tu tug g with dispatches des patches from gen schofield capt ainsworth left wilmington to move up t the he cape fear river elver miles spite of the reports current that the river was filled with torpedoes arid blocked up by trees tree sand and by the rebel chickamauga sunk across it iland and that i numerous rebel batteries were establish ed at different points on the river he made his trip up with entire entile safety without lo singa shiga man although continually fired into inia by the rebels along the shore journal To of commerce |
