The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 47, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc. Page: 88
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88 OPERATIONS IN N. C., S. C., 8. GA., AND E. FLA. [CHAP. LIX.
day evening and will march in the morning with four days' rations,
expecting to get more at Faison's Station. He takes with him Captain
Logan with about 330 men of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-
third Corps, about 411 recruits, a few of the latter belonging to General
Terry's corps. Lieutenant-Colonel O'Brien, Seventy-fifth Indiana,
arrived to-day with about 1,300 of'the Second Brigade of General
Cruft's division, and has 900 more on the way. It is impossible for me
to arm men here. I have sent no unarmed men except under good
escort.
J. R. HAWLEY,
Brigadier- Generat, Commanding.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Goldsborough, N. C., April 2, 1865.
General HAWLEY,
Wilmington:
Your telegram is received, and is very satisfactory. You may count
on finding rations at Faison's for all men you forward, and army com-
manders will be notified that arms may be provided here.
L. M. DAYTON,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,
DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Wilmington, April 2, 1865.
Major-General SCHOFIELD,
Goldsborough, N. C.:
The creek bridge will be completed to-night, and the cars can then run
to Northeast. We have two locomotives ready for use and fifteen cars;
another locomotive unloading, and fifty additional cars. I shall drive
the work day and night. About 4,000 troops have arrived from Wash-
ington. We are discharging them and marching them to the front.
We can discharge two steamers here while one is being discharged at
Beaufort. As soon as the bridge is completed across the Northeast
we will send stores to the front rapidly.
GEO. S. DODGE,
Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Goldsborough, N. C., April 2, 1865-12.20 p. m.
Brig. Gen. I. N. PALMER,
New Berne :
The commanding general directs that you order the Fifty-second
Pennsylvania Infantry to march at once to this place, reporting at
these headquarters for further orders. The baggage of the regiment
can be sent forward by rail.
J. A. CAMPBELL,
* Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 47, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc., book, 1895; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154639/m1/88/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.