In the evening we move about four miles across an almost impassable swamp and go into camp. The seventy thousand are now making a terrible s...

We move early this morning; our Division is moving by itself upon a lone road, General Corse having orders to move across the country and fo...

We cross Black Water swamps and go into camp at Hickory Hill, making a distance of ten miles. SOURCE: abstracted from Daniel Leib Ambrose,...

We cross Whippie Swamp about noon to-day and go into camp for the night. SOURCE: abstracted from Daniel Leib Ambrose,  History of the Seve...

The roads still continue desperate, and in consequence we move slowly. In the evening we cross the little Saltkatchie swamp. SOURCE: abstr...

We move early this morning, but very slow; these swamps prove to be terrible obstacles to Sherman's seventy thousand. We soon come to th...

This morning we move our camp and shift around more to the left. Brisk skirmishing is now going on along the river, with some cannonading. I...

The Seventh cross Broad River and go into camp near the doomed city. We can now see the great conflagration. Oh! how terrible those sweeping...

Heavy rains fall, swelling the rivers and making the roads almost impassable. Passing through Camden, we arrive at Cheraw on the 2d of March...

We arrive at Fayetteville, and while approaching, the advance was for awhile engaged in skirmishing with Wade Hampton's cavalry, that co...

The army tug Davenson reaches Fayetteville from Wilmington to-day. We remain here until the 14th, when we again move. SOURCE: abstracted f...

We proceed to the Cape Fear river one mile below town where we remain until noon waiting for the 17th Army Corps to cross, after which Gener...

The 4th Division take the advance this morning. The advance encounter Hampton's cavalry, but by a little skirmishing they are soon scatt...

By advancing this morning we discover that the rebels have all made their exit from South river. General Corse again takes the advance. The ...

The 4th Division still moves in the advance. We take the main Goldsboro road this morning. The roads are desperate, the troops are compelled...

9 o'clock A. M. we move. The roads still desperate—corduroying almost every step. A great many refugees are now following the army, se...

To-day we reach Falling Creek, where the mounted portion of the Seventh is thrown forward to the river bridge, where they encounter the enem...

This morning the armies are menacing each other face to face, each remaining behind their works. The design of Sherman is to hold him there ...

Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...

Columbia, S. C.—This wild talk about the Federal Army and what it's going to do is all nonsense. Coming here! Sherman! Why not say he...