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Rear-Admiral Goldsborough has been instructed to send a ship-of-war to your port. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, I showed him Seward's dispatch and fired him with the desire of distinguishing himself by taking the initiative in the work of humanity.
Occupation of Kinston Opening of Neuse River Rebel ram destroyed Listening to the distant battle at Bentonville Entering Goldsborough Meeting Sherman Grant's congratulations His own plans Sketch of Sherman's march Lee and Johnston's correspondence Their gloomy outlook Am made commandant of Twenty-third Corps Terry assigned to Tenth Schofield promoted in the Regular Army Stanton's proviso Ill effects of living on the country Stopping it in North Carolina Camp jubilee over the fall of Richmond Changes in Sherman's plans Our march on Smithfield House-burning News of Lee's surrender Overtures from Governor Vance Entering Raleigh A mocking-bird's greeting Further negotiations as to North Carolina Johnston proposes an armistice Broader scope of negotiations The Southern people desire peace Terrors of non-combatants assuaged News of Lincoln's assassination Precautions to preserve order The dawn of peace.
Goldsborough started in a taxicab up Fifth Avenue. But at Forty-eighth Street a government mail van, issuing suddenly out of the sideway, smashed squarely into the side of the taxicab bearing him, with the result that the taxi lost a wheel and Mr. Goldsborough lost another half hour.
Flag-officer Goldsborough was a native of Maryland, but he believed that the South was wrong in trying to break up the Union, that she ought to be compelled to lay down her arms since she would not do it of her own free will, and he was doing all a brave and skilful man could to force her to strike the strange flag she had hoisted in opposition to the Stars and Stripes.
The work which occupied us the ten days of April which we spent at Goldsborough was chiefly that of organizing our trains and collecting supplies in our depots, so that the foraging on the country which had been necessary in Georgia and South Carolina might cease, now that we had railway communication with a safe base on the Atlantic.
On March 23, 1865, Sherman took possession of the town and railway junction of Goldsborough between Raleigh and New Berne. From Savannah to Goldsborough he had led his army 425 miles in fifty days, amid disadvantages of ground and of weather which had called forth both extraordinary endurance and mechanical skill on the part of his men. He lay now 140 miles south of Petersburg by the railway.
Of the small group of officers, Captain Farley was killed, Captain White wounded, and Lieutenant Goldsborough captured. This reconnoissance in force the Federal numbers probably amounting to fifteen thousand had no other result than the discovery of the fact that Lee had infantry in Culpepper.
Bragg had carefully removed all boats from our side of the channel, but citizens anxious to prevent us from firing on the town came over in skiffs, and we learned that the Confederate forces had marched away toward Goldsborough, leaving the way open for Terry's march into the city, which took place in the early morning of the 22d, which we were happy to recall was Washington's Birthday.
Then, after Sherman's arrival, there evidently was no end of talk. Sherman was at first amused by the President's anxiety as to whether his army was quite safe without him at Goldsborough; but that keen-witted soldier soon received, as he has said, an impression both of goodness and of greatness such as no other man ever gave him.
Having spent the 27th and 28th of March there, he was sent back by Admiral Porter in a fast vessel of the navy, reached New Berne on the 30th, and rejoined us at Goldsborough the same evening. His return was a matter of some personal interest to me, for it brought my permanent assignment to the command of the Twenty-third Corps by Presidential order.
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