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 VOL. 1. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8; 1865. NO. 34. :

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 THE FLORIDA UNIONIS time occupied in crossing the space betweenthe It i is: known that a movement has been initiated division, consisting of the Fourteenth and -
 lines, cutting down the abattis and gettingto by General Sherman which will Twentieth
 BY completely corps, was a feint _
 IS PUBLISHED: EVERY SATURDAY :MORNING making move-
 the rear of the fort was the work of only a cut off the rebel army under Johnson ment or reconnoissance in the direction of .
N W. C. MORRILL & 1. X. STICKNEY.
 few minutes. Here formed in line of from
 they : available
 every source of supply,and the Smithfield and Raleigh, the former place being -
 TERMS: : battle, brigade front, and while one portion movement on the part.of General Grant will about twenty-five miles west of Golds-

 Two Dollars per Annum Advance.. advanced on the fort the other swept!the rightin compel Lee either starve his army hi Richmond boro, nearly on the line of railroad between -- ,

' No Subscriptions taken for less than Three months. towards the Appomattox, expecting to flank or to come put and risk ,an engagement Goldsboro and Raleigh. The attack of the .
 and capture the whole line to the river. The in the field in which *
 Single copies five cents. open a disastrous defeat enemy, like all their onsets, commenced im-
 latter party were met by the Seventeenth will be inevitable.
 line each impetuously but lacked
 ADVKBTISEMENT8 fwenty-five cents per ; they the stubbornness -
 :Michigan and driven back after some hard The facts induce the conviction
 i insertion. here that and spirit to keep it up. On Sunday it '
 Advertisements not specifying time will be markedt fighting. before the return of the President to Washing cannot be denied that the Fourteenth and
 f(till forbidden) and charged accordingly.Book The force that attacked the fort were repulsed ton the terms of peace will be agreed upon Twentieth corps had their hands full to sus-

 of variety neatly by the garrison several times ; but, between Grant and Lee, and the armed rebel- tain themselves against the attack made
 Job and Card Printing every upon -
 executed at the UNION office. their numbers being so superior to ours, they lion be ended. The best informed officials them. On the next day, however, the

 finally overpowered and took prisoners nearlyall here regard an immediate peace as almost be- Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps came to the
 who were in it.' They at once sent the yond adoubt.The .
 rescue and the
 NEWS FROM THE NORTH. enemy were driven in confusion -
 captured over the works to their lines,-and rumor another peace conference has to and through Smithfield, in the direc-

 Cen. Crant many succeeded in getting away and running received additional confirmation to-night from tion of Raleigh. The chief command of the
 Heavy Fighting by back, the guard being very small that had the fact that Mr. Seward has gone to the James rebel army was held bv General Johnston
 ,
 in front of Petersburg. charge of them. river to-night to join Mr. Lincoln. although Gen. Robert E. Lee is said by some

 Gen. Wixcox moved up part of his command SHERMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS. of the prisoners to have been at
 3000 REBELS CAPTURED. from the right to the scene of action, Advices from Wilmington are that railroad Smithfield, giving general direction present to move

 and soon drove the enemy from the line on the communication between that point and Golds- ments. I greatly doubt this, however but

 Terrible Fighting by Sherma's Forces, right of the fort. Gen. Hartranft's division, boro will be completed to-night. Duplicatesof think that S. P' Lee, of Hood's old army, ,
 lying partly in reserve and partly on the line, the bridges across the Northeast and Neuse was present, and that he is confounded with
 With Decided Success to the left, was quickly on the ground, with rivers have been found all ready to be put up. the other Lee. There is no doubt about

 reinforcements, and at once assaulted the fort There inow at Wilmington an abundance of Hardee and Bragg having been present and 1

 GOLD FALLEN TO 1 51. in turn from the rear,which the rebels seemed rolling stock to supply all the requirements of it is pretty certain that a portion of the,rebel
 i
 determined to hold at all hazards. These repeated I (lie army at Goldsboro. of
 Army
 Virginia was at or near the scene
 charges were made and after that the .
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 By the steamer Delaware, which arrived at fighting here was over, the Jolinies" laying I From the N. Y. Herald,March 30th. $1-

 this port on Wednesday last, we have received down their arms and surrendering. More Peace Rumors.It THE CASUALTIESwere a

 Northern papers to the 30th ult. I To the left of Fort Steedman is located bat- I. is now believed that the visit of the Pres- pretty heavy the.first day on both sides .

 The rebels attacked our forces in front of tery No. 11, which the enemy also managed ident to the armies on James river is of more and the hospitals in this place are being

 to get'possession of, but did not keep it long, importance than has heretofore been generally cleared as much as possible to make room .
 Petersburg on the morning of the 25th ult., and although hard considered. Since--he has been there
 they fought they were a council for the wounded who can be removed so far.
 and succeeded in capturing Fort Steedman, forced to relinquish it. of war has been held in which Mr. Lin- The next day the casualties were almost

 having massed a large number of tkeir troops I I It was at first reported that the rebels had coln, Generals Grant, Sherman, Meade, Ord, wholly upon the side of the rebels, and their
 carried off three mortars but this Sheridan and other military chiefs participated
 to killed
 and wounded
 ; proves were left in our hands.
 in front
 of
 the 9th
 Corps, (a portion of which
 and after it
 broke
 have been a mistake. They took one over the immediately up a general
 occupied the Fort,) and so sudden was he side of the fort; but, in their haste to get back movement; in front of Richmond was begun. THE REBELS PURSUED TO SMITHFIELD.

 onset that nearly all the troops in it were to their lines, they dropped it within a few Gen. Sherman came on quickly from Golds- General Sherman pursued them no farther

 captured ; this part of the line was occupiedby yards of the breastworks, from which place it boro, reaching City Point on last Monday,and than Smithfield, and from there has come to
 will be brought in to-night. I leaving again for. orth Carolina on Tuesday. Goldsboro to his A
 the Third Brigade of the First Division I We have the refit army. new outfit was
 The loss or the enemy is much heavier than important report from Washington needed'throughout and everything

 9th Corps. What in the morning appeared ours. Their dead and wounded number more that General Lee, since the engagements for them has been sent, forward to Kingston necessary,

 almost a disaster to the Union forces, provedto than double ours, while we have over eighteen: of last Saturday, has renewed his request and from there will be sent to Goldsboro as
 hundred prisoners them about for a military convention to agree
 among forty uponterms fast as possible.THE .
 be a decided success, for the 9th Corps recaptured officers. .. for a cessation of hostilities. Cis said

 : their lost Fort, driving the rebels I The works on both sides were lined I 1 acknowledged that, on account of the ARMIES CONCENTRATED AT GOLDSBORO.

 from it before they could remove or destroyits soldiers watching the proceedings. hcutting of his communications, the scarcity of Generals Sherman Schofield and
 supplies-in Richmond and the Terry are
 formidable
 ,
 present 
 guns. The rebels also succeeded in getting + gj combinations now all at Goldsboro, although Terry's for-
 Grand Council of War at City Point. : against him, further military 
 possession of Battery No. 11, immediately on [Washington Correspondent of the New York Herald.] 1 1i efforts on his part must be useless. It is i ces have advanced some distance beyond,
 and will
 the left of Fort Steedman, but were soon WASHINGTON, )March, 29, 1865. 1J understood that General Sherman's plan for the enemy.exercise Terry a vigilent met with watchfulness no oppositionin over -
 off General
 forced to relinquish it The rebel loss in The visit of}Ir. Lincoln to Fortress Monroe J from cutting all available Johnston's of rebel army his advance, but made some valuable cap-

 front of this Corps alone was nearly five and General Grant's headquarters is now be and that General sources supply are com tures of locomotives and cars. Schofield received 
 Grant's
 plete
 ] movement will t
 lieved here to have much more significancethan
 a welcome from the citizens
 hearty
 thousand, losing nineteen hundred prisoners first <compel Lee either to starve his troops in Richmond 
 was at attached to it. It has been of Goldsboro, very few leaving the town.-
 alone. or come out and risk an '
 'Cn
 Bement
 the occasion of a personal interview between
 The valiant editor of the Goldsboro Journal
 The Second and Sixth Corps, however, him and General Sherman, and a council of I i ii In view of all in these matters, many well informed was among the first to depart. The ladies,
 I people Washington are
 taking advantage of the attention the rebels war, in which the President and Gens. Grant, i that before President Lincoln's return sanguine from particularly, gave our boys the best of cheer.
 Sherman and Sheridan
 participated. The The burned about one thousand bales
 enemy
 were giving to the of Fort Steedmam i
 capture conference w3.evidently in regard to pendinmilitary agreed of cotton before leaving, having previously
 pushed forward their forces and succeeded in operations, as immediately after the i compelled owners in the country to bring it
 i the rebellion be ended. Another matter of
 not only capturing one of the main rebel lines council broke up a general movement of the in and store it in the town.
 / army of General Grant in front of Richmondwas apparently some significance is the fact; that
 in their front, but also captured some three begun. Secretary Seward also left Washington for .

 thousand prisoners. The rebels made several General Sherman came to this interview in City Point last night. Thirteenth and Sixteenth Army Corps.

 attempts to retake their lines, but were repulsed cognito. The fact of his coming was knownto Another engagement took place hi the Army GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 28.
 few in his own army, and to none at Fortress of the Potomac on last Monday morning, WAR DEPABnlClT, AWCTJLXT GESEBAL'S OFFICE, \
 with terrible slaughter; they again on Monroe, except those who met him in which, though confined to a small portion of WA8HDTGTOK, Feb. 26, 18M. j '

 the.27th made a desperate attempt to repos the council. He returned last night to Gold the line, and of short duration, was of quite a .. The Thirteenth and Sixteenth army corps

 sess their lost line, in front of the Sixth Corps, boro, via Wilmington, accompamed by Brevet serious character, at least for the rebels. A haVing been reorganized by Major General
 General party of them,who pretended that they wished Canby, by direction of the President, Major
 Brigadier the United
 Dodge
 but on States
 ,
 our troops had had possession too long General Gordon is
 steamer Bat. to desert, were allowed to approach the national Granger assigned to the
 and know how to use the spade too well tallow 0 I I RUMORED PEACE lines, when they made a fierce attack on the command of the former, and Major General

 them to retake it It has now been The delay of the President NEGOTIATIONS.at City Point has front of one division of the Sixth corps, just A. J. Smith to the latter, their assignments .

 made one of the Union main lines. To offset given a color of probability to the rumor in before daybreak, for the purpose of recovering to date from February 18.
 order of
 l their advanced works from By
 which
 they
 circulation in
 to the
 this the rebels have regard renewal of peace
 gained nothing.A negotiations. An officer of the were driven on Saturday. The assault was SECRETARY OF WAR.

. battle is reported to have taken place between who arrived here to-day, brings government the positive, so sudden and furious that the Sixth corps E. D. TOWNSEND, Apst. Adjt. General. I -

 Gen. Sherman's forces and Gens.Johnson information that the rebel General Lee has, troops were at first forced back; but they instantly '

 Bragg, and "Hardee's forces, at A verys- since the battle of Saturday last, renewed his !i and recovered ralliedrepulsed and maintained the enemy their on all points, From Mobile,
 boro request,preferred through Generals Longstreetand captured From the N. Orleans Independent, March 17.
 situated on the Cape Fear River, about ground. The rebel loss the short
 during fightwas
 Ord for
 a military convention to settle A in whom
 I lady, implicit confidence is
 forty miles south of Raleigh, which resultedin matters and agree upon terms of a cessation of i heavy, while that of the ixth corps was placed, and who arrived here last week,"direct -
 The entire first line of
 slight. rebel
 a decided Union victory. Gen. Sherman hostilities and the establishment of peace. It very : from Mobile, states that when she left
 : works captured by the Second and Sixth
 with his array was at Goldsboro is represented that General Lee has expressedthe corpson .that city all appearances indicated that it #
 restingand that he last Saturday is still held by them, and has
 equiping, for further movements.The main opinion in Richmond cannot much longer re been rendered so strong that any effort of the was being evacuated by the rebel troops. r
 on account of the scarcity Information has since been received here
 Fight Before Petersburg of supplies, caused by the destruction of the enemy for its recovery must prove futile.. which would seem to the opinion.
 At the point where the James River Canal and in The loss of the rebels JDM Saturday,in killed, justify
 enemy charged, the ; view of the tremendous The report of its evacuation is also creditedby
 wounded and prisoners in their attack the
 main lines are one hundred and combinations against him it would ; on the
 fifty yardsapart military authorities here. It matters
 Ninth alone is estimated five
 the ground between be madness to attempt outsideof corps at thous- little
 being level and any movement very whether Mobile be evacuated or
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 and. Gen. Grant in his official order states
 free from obstructions his defences. He ,
 except the abatis in therefore deems a continuance not; whenever the federals want the city
 front of the works of each side. At this place of the contest aj seless and criminal that over nineteen hundred of, them were capture they'll march,on it and take possession.,
 firing between the waste of life and blood. at this point. To offset this they gained F
 pickets has been almostcontinuous \ The Richmond The heavy guns up the bay are still heard "
 nothing. claim
 and scarcely a day without It will be remembered that the papers only at all hours of
 passes request previously that five hundred Union soldiers ; the day, and a courier just in
 least.two or three being wounded on our side at made for a military convention was admit that no were carried were off.capturedand Gen. reports that the rebels have been driven from ..
 declined General guns
 by Grant: only because he three batteries.We .
 This part of the line has been occupied by was not then clothed with authority to .treaton Grant says that in all the engagements of Saturday are in, almost hourly expectation of ,
 the lines
 along hundred
 Ihe Third brigade of the First division of any other than purely twenty-eight
 the military subjects. receiving the order to advance. Transportation i
 .
 rebel soldiers and ten rebel battle
 with corps, Gen. McLaughlin Now the President is at his side and flags were
 commanding. can confer has been cut down to the smallest
 captured. Both Gen. Lee's official
 He has often expressed his ability to break upon him all the authority requisite for the despatchand limit possible. .
 through the lines convention the Richmond journals admit that the at .
 enemy's here and proposed.It .
 only -
 yes .. .
 tack the Ninth .
 on failure.
 was a r
 terday he showed how it could be done to is known that both the President and our corps
 wme visitors, who were inspecting tqe works. leading military officers are anxious to secure .. Trade With Rebel States. .'
 This morning four divisions of the enemy the whole of the rebel armed forces in Virginia [From the New York. Herald, March 29.J] The bill to repeal the section of the act
 were massed in the and North Carolina The Fight of the 19th inst. which provides for the
 rear of their line, under for to scatter them appointment agents
 the command of Gen. Terry! who was ap into a multitude of guerilla bands in the NEWBERN, N. C. March 24, 1865. to purchase cotton and other products of insurrectionary -

 pointed to lead the charge. These troops conlSt.ed mountain districts would greatly- prolong the An attack was made upon the ,20th, ,corps 'States was not vetoed by the

 Bushrod Johnson's,Walker's, a war. A proposition to surrender these forces on,Sunday, the 19th, in the vicinity of Ben- President,<but,'it'was'' said,failed 'to' receive .
 and Gues' divisions, of Gen. Gordon's co rps.ilawill unquestionably elicit from Mr. Lincoln tonsville, nearly thirty miles southwest of his signature, which amounts to about,the }:

 At five A. )[. the charge was made,and the liberal concessions on the part of the government Goldsboro. It\is represented by,,those who same;thing-namely, its failure to become.a; ,J

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