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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
r if they waited there, rolling as the sea was rolling my ship, the fire of the fleet would have amounted to nothing, for under such circumstances their shot would not, with any certainty, have hit a county. But when the fleet retired my men would have no heavy guns to protect them, and would be exposed to attack by large numbers on the peninsula. They might possibly intrench against these, but they would also be exposed to the fire of the heavy guns of the fort, of which there were still sixteen uninjured and bearing directly up the beach. The beach at that point was not more than a third of a mile wide, and the wind of the storm would not affect the accuracy of the enemy's fire from the fort Besides, the drenching rains of the storm would cause suffering and sickness among the unprotected men, as their tents had not been and could not be got on shore, and not even their medical stores had been landed. The fact that as soon as the fire from our vessels ceased there were plenty of