Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. Delafield” in chapter 23, page 582 of Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative:
...This was to be a disguised blockade runner loaded with 215 tons of gunpowder to be run at night close to Fort Fisher and exploded.
It was supposed that this would put the whole fort hors de combat. Gen. Delafield , chief engineer, submitted to the War Department a report on destructive effects of explosions of gunpowder in open air, indicating their very limited range.
Butler was notoriously a military charl...
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