1865/03/14 Correspondence

UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA (FROM FEBRUARY 1), SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTHERN GEORGIA, AND EAST FLORIDA, FROM JANUARY 1, 1865, TO MARCH 23, 1865.(*)--#34

COLONEL: General Cogswell has returned from the reconnaissance ordered this morning. He (General C.), with four regiments, marched on the road to Black River, found Butler's cavalry division at the river, drove them across, but did not attempt to dislodge them, as they had four pieces of artillery, and it would have caused him to engage his line of battle. Lieutenant-Colonel Buckingham, Twentieth Connecticut, with [four] regiments, marched on the road to Taylor's Hole Creek. Found the enemy at Silver Run Creek, two miles this side of Taylor's Hole. The enemy, two brigades of Wheeler's cavalry, was in barricades. The skirmish line could not dislodge them, and Colonel B. was ordered not to use his line of battle. He says that he could have driven them could he have used his entire force. Casualties, 1 officer wounded, l enlisted man killed and 2 wounded.