. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... ere, as usual, covered by the end-less swamps of this region of country. Thus matters stood about Bentonville on the 21stof March. On the same day General Schofield en-tered Goldsboro with litde or no opposidon, and Gen^ eral Terry had got possessionof the Neuse River at CoxsBridge, ten miles above, witha pontoon-bridge laid and abrigade across; so that thethree armies were in actualconnection, and the great ob-ject of the campaign wasaccomplished. On the 2ist a steady rainprevailed, during which Gen-era
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. Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ... ere, as usual, covered by the end-less swamps of this region of country. Thus matters stood about Bentonville on the 21stof March. On the same day General Schofield en-tered Goldsboro with litde or no opposidon, and Gen^ eral Terry had got possessionof the Neuse River at CoxsBridge, ten miles above, witha pontoon-bridge laid and abrigade across; so that thethree armies were in actualconnection, and the great ob-ject of the campaign wasaccomplished. On the 2ist a steady rainprevailed, during which Gen-eral Mowers division of the Seventeenth corps, onthe extreme right, had worked well to the right aroundthe enemys flank, and had nearly reached the bridgeacross Mill Creek, the only line of retreat open to theenemy. Of course there was extreme danger thatthe enemy would turn on him all his reserves, and, Itmight be, let go his parapets to overwhelm Mower.Accordingly, I ordered at once a general attack byour skirmish-line from left to right. Quite a noisy batde ensued, during which General. 6RIG.-GENERAL SCHOFIELD.