. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . s were missing,—a soldier hadexchanged a very coarse pair of army shoes for them. Rhett said that in allhis troubles he had one consolation, that of knowing that no one of Sher-mans men could get on those boots. On the following morning Kilpatrick came upon the enemy behind a lineof intrenchments. He moved his cavalry to the right, and Jacksons andWards divisions of the Twentieth Corps were deployed in front of theenemys line. General Sherman directed me to send a brigade to the l
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . s were missing,—a soldier hadexchanged a very coarse pair of army shoes for them. Rhett said that in allhis troubles he had one consolation, that of knowing that no one of Sher-mans men could get on those boots. On the following morning Kilpatrick came upon the enemy behind a lineof intrenchments. He moved his cavalry to the right, and Jacksons andWards divisions of the Twentieth Corps were deployed in front of theenemys line. General Sherman directed me to send a brigade to the leftin order to get in rear of the intrenchments, which was done, and resultedin the retreat of the enemy and in the capture of Macbeths Charleston Bat-tery and 217 of Rhetts men. The Confederates were found behind anotherline of wor*ks a short distance in rear of the first, and we went into campin their immediate front. During the night Hardee retreated, leaving 108dead for us to bury, and 68 wounded. We lost 12 officers and 65 menkilled and 477 men wounded. This action was known as the battle THE FOURTEENTH CORPS ENTERING PATETTEVILLE. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. 692 SHERMANS MARCH FROM SAVANNAH TO BENTONVILLE. Our march to this point had been toward Raleigh. We now took the roadleading to Goldsboro. General Sherman rode with me on the 18th and leftme at 6 a. m. on the 19th to join General Howard, who was marching onroads several miles to our right. On leaving me General Sherman expressed\he opinion that Hardee had fallen back to Raleigh, and that I could easilyreach the Neuse River on the following day. I felt confident I could accom-plish the task. We moved forward at 6 A. m., and soon met the skirmishersof the enemy. The resistance to our advance became very stubborn. Car-1 ins division was deployed and ordered to advance. I believed that the forcein my front consisted only of cavalry with a few pieces of artillery. Fearingthat the firing would be heard
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