NORTH CAROLINA: THE CAPTURE OF RALEIGH; Johnston Avoids a Battle with Sherman (4/19/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/19/1865

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[OFFICIAL.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 16, 1865.

Major-Gen. Dix, New-York:

Official information has reached this department of the occupation of Mobile, on the 12th inst. by the troops under command of Maj.-Gen. CANBY. No particulars of the capture have yet been received.

The following despatches, confirming details of the expedition under command of Maj.-Gen. STONEMAN, have been forwarded to the department of Maj.-Gen. THOMAS:

HEADQUARTERS, NASHVILLE, April 18 -- 1:30 P.M.

Major-Gen. H.W. Halleck, Chief of Staff:

I forward the following report from Major-Gen. STONEMAN, just received, for the information of the Secretary of War and the Lieutenant-General, and take pleasure in specially inviting their attention to the importance of the work performed by Gen. STONEMAN, who in spirit fully executed the orders given him before starting on the expedition. The officers specially mentioned by Gen. STONEMAN -Major KEOGH, Capts. MORROW, ALLEN and CHAMBERLAIN -- have heretofore, on many occasions, distinguished themselves by gallantry and good conduct in battle.

HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE IN THE FIELD. Camp at Slatersville, N.C., April 13, Via Jonesboro, 7 A.M., April 18, 1865.

To Maj-Gen. Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland:

I have the honor to report the following as the result of our operations since my last dispatch from Boone, N.C. From Boone it became necessary to cross the Blue Ridge into the Yadkin River bottom, in order to obtain supplies for men and horses. Here we were detained three days by freshet. From thence was struck for Christiansburgh. On the route I detached Col. MILLER, with a portion of his brigade to Wytherville, and Maj. WAGNER, with a portion or the Fifteenth Pennsylvania, PALMER's brigade, to Big Lick. These three points were struck almost simultaneously. Colonel PALMER attacked, and after some fighting, captured Wytherville,

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North Carolina: The Capture of Raleigh – 2
From Fortress Monroe: Disposition of Rebel Prisoners – 2-3
From Mobile: Official Dispatches from Gen. Canby – 3
Grant’s Army: The Process of Paroling – 3-4
Arrival of Gen. Lee in Richmond – 4
The Assassination: The Last Marks of Respect to Our Late President – 4-6
The Man Arrested in Baltimore-His Confession – 6
Transportation of the President’s Remains – 6
Secretary Seward Much Better – 6
Letter to Edwin Booth and His Reply – 6-7
A Speech by President Johnson – 7
Editorial: The Day of Mourning – 7-8
Editorial: The Mourning of the Slaves – 8
The Feeling in the British Provinces – 8
Trading in the National Calamity – 8

[chajin]

The Feeling in the British Provinces

It would be interesting to know what was the Confederate-leaning newspaper in Toronto.

The Brits, including the Canucks, wanted better access to southern cotton, but they also had abolished slavery decades earlier, so I would guess they would have mixed feelings about supporting or opposing the Confederacy.

[M Kehoe]

Major KEOGH,

Myles Keogh.

Great, great uncle.

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