Goldsboro

I just came home from doing seven years.

Was down in Goldsboro, North Carolina, trying to get back to it.

And a homie called me, said he tied him up, robbed him.

But I was done with him.

Light showers here leaving Wake County now and drifting to the north.

Again, maybe a brief little moderate shower, also a moderate shower south of Goldsboro.

But if you look upstream, meaning what's coming from west to east, there's really nothing out there.

Again, can't rule out a little drizzle or even another spotty shower, but generally cloudy in upper 60s.

Showers out there right now, again, lifting up towards the north.

We don't see a lot of stuff upstream coming our way, but still there's a possibility of drizzle out there.

A bona fide decent shower south of Goldsboro.

And along the coast, we have some moderate to even some heavier showers there.

Still breaks in the clouds out there, but an easterly breeze now at about 10 to 12 miles an hour.

60s north, and into Sanford, 75 into Fayetteville, and Goldsboro is 73 degrees.

Evening out, that's when we have higher l- likelihood of getting some showers.

Numbers getting to those lower to mid-60s and holding steady.

Everybody in the 80s.

Close to 90 down in Goldsboro.

Clinton 86.

Smithfield, Fayetteville 87.

On the day that Terry was preparing to storm Fort Fisher, General Schofield, receiving his orders from Grant to move the 23rd Corps to the east, he came as rapidly as possible by river and by rail to Washington, and reporting in person to Grant at Fort Monroe, went with him to Fort Fisher, where with Terry and Porter the plan of the coming campaign was arranged.

Schofield was placed in command of the new department of North Carolina, and the first task assigned to him was the capture of Wilmington, to serve as a base for Sherman, if anything should interrupt his march to Goldsboro, and next to open the route from New Bern to Goldsboro, and concentrate his army there to meet Sherman, and be ready for any duty which the exigencies of the campaign might require.

The first division of the western troops that arrived was that of General J.D. Cox, followed a few days later by part of D.N. Couches, and with these and Terry's force, Schofield moved on Wilmington.

The Confederate General Hoke had entrenched himself with his own and what was left of Whiting's troops across Federal Point on a line from Myrtle Sound to Cape Fear River, and beyond the river a heavy earthwork called Fort Anderson guarded the right bank.

Terry had been stoutly resisted by Hoke, who was covering his purpose of retreat by this judicious action, and Schofield had ordered Cox to cross the river and join the army on the left bank, but Cox, seeing that Wilmington was in extremity, took the responsibility of disobeying his orders and explaining the situation to Schofield.

His conduct was approved, and at daybreak on the 22nd of February, Schofield celebrated the birthday of Washington by an unopposed entry into Wilmington.

The next thing to be done was to gain possession of Goldsboro, the point designated for the junction with Sherman.

It was decided that New Bern afforded a better base for that movement, as well as for Sherman's subsequent operations, than Wilmington.