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: 91
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CHAP. LIX.]
CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
91
Major-General SCHOIELDWILMINGTON, April 3, 1865.
Major-General SCHOF IELD,
Commanding Department of North Carolina:
The bridge across the Northeast Branch of the.Cape Fear River will
be completed to-morrow at 2 p. m.; also the creek bridge. I will have
the locomotive and cars ready to run on the road as soon as the bridge
is ready. Troops are continually arriving. About 2,500 left for the
front this morning; 2,500 more will leave for the front to-morrow morn-
ing. I shall forward the land transportation arriving for the Twenty-
third Corps as soon as it arrives. Can I send you anything for your
comfort?
GEO. S. DODGE,
Brevet Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.
SPECIAL HDQRS. DEPT. OF NORTH CAROLINA,
FIELD ORDERS, ARMY OF THE OHIO,
No. 20. Goldsborough, N. C., April 3, 1865.
I. During the operations of the main armies which are about to com-
mence, Goldsborough, and the New Berne and Wilmington railroads
will be abandoned as far back as Kinston and East Point. The Eighty-
fifth New York Infantry, now at Goldsborough, will remain at that
place until notified by Col. W. W. Wright, superintendent of railroads,
that all surplus stores have been removed to the rear, and that the use
of the road is about to cease, when that regiment will move by rail, if
practicable, at least as far back as the Neuse bridge below Kinston.
Brig. Gen. I. N. Palmer, commanding District of Beaufort, will main-
tain his present force at Kinston until notified by Colonel Wright that
the use of the railroad to that point has ceased, when he will withdraw
to New Berne all of that force except one good regiment. This regi-
Inent will be securely intrenched at the Neuse railroad bridge, with a
strong picket at the wagon bridge to prevent their destruction (espe-
cially at the railroad bridge) by any small force of the enemy. Brig.
Gen. Joseph RIt. Hawley, commanding District of Wilmington, N. C.,
will hold possession of the railroad from Wilmington as far as Strick-
land's Depot until notified by Colonel Wright that the use of that road
is about to cease, when he will withdraw all his troops as far back as
the railroad bridge at East Point, where he will maintain a strong
picket securely intrenched to protect that bridge. That portion of the
First Division, Tenth Army Corps, now at New Berne and Morehead
City, will be held in readiness to move by sea in connection with the
main depot of supplies under orders which will be given from head-
quarters Military Division of the Mississippi.
By command of Major-General Schofield:
J. A. CAMPBELL,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Goldsborough, April 3, 1865.
Brig. Gen. J. R. HAWLEY, Wilmington:
Have Captain Harvey's and Captain Myers' (Fifteenth and Twenty-
third Indiana) batteries left Wilmington for New Berne; and if so,
when?
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/m1/91/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.