...hey are impregnable, and have a grasp upon the place that we cannot unloose. Very respectfully, W. H. C. Whtiing, Major-General. General Whiting gave his heart to the work of the defence o North Carolina . He had been long and successfully engaged, before the war, in the improvement of the navigation of the Cape Fear, and learned to know and esteem her people. He had won, as his bride, one of the ...