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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
arolina burned, two warehouses occupied by the Rockfish Company burned, court-house and jail burned, all the cotton factories burned. "John Waddell was killed on his plantation, about four miles east of Fayetteville. None of the citizens of Fayetteville were killed. John T. McLean, W. T. Horne and Major Hawly were all hung, to extort from them where their valuables were hid, but were taken down uninjured. It is reported that about four hundred negroes and whites were drowned in Cape Fear river in endeavoring to escape with the Yankees, either from the sinking of a flat or the Yankee officers cutting the pontoons loose. "Private residences, after being plundered, were guarded, to 'protect' them." The battle of Bentonville. A letter from Bentonville, March 20th, gives the following about the defeat of the enemy there the day before: "The fight yesterday was successful. I was on the right, and saw Bate's and Cleburne's divisions charge and carry two lines o