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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
our superior in rank, General Bragg, is charged with the command and defence of Wilmington. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War. The following is the official report of Major-General Whiting of the operations of January 15th: Fort Fisher, January 18, 1865. General R. E. Lee, Commanding Armies Confederate States: General,—I am sorry to have to inform you, as a prisoner of war, of the taking of Fort Fisher on the night of the 15th instant, after an assault of unprecedented fury, both by sea risoner of war). hospital, Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, February 9, 1865. The above is an exact copy of the dispatch dictated to Major Hill, in the hospital at Fort Fisher (and preserved in his note-book) on the 18TH January, 1865, and which I intended to have endeavored to forward at that time by flag of truce, and accordingly made a request of General Terry. On his reply, that it would be necessary to refer it to Lieutenant-General Grant, I concluded to postpone t