OR, Series 1, Vol. 40, Part 3, Page 1319

Wilmington
December 26, 1864
 
Col. Archer Anderson
 
   Following dispatch from Colonel Pool, Goldsborough, just received and submitted to General Holmes:
   General Hoke, with 660 men of Hagood's brigade and North Carolina home guards, have just left {on the Wilmington & Weldon RR}. Other trains between this point and Greensborough {on the North Carolina RR}. Will forward as soon as they arrive.
J. H. Scott

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