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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
erations of Sherman on the line of the Savannah, and the ceaseless watchfulness of Grant on the line of the James, would leave the rebels but a limited land force for the defence of Wilmington, induced the supposition that Butler's co-operating army would have light work. As for a rebel naval force, there were none that could give us a moment's fear. The work to be done; thought really most difficult seemed simple. Fort Fisher, an earth work, stood upon the neck of land which has Cape Fear river on one side and the sea on the other; and the capture of this defence was the principal aim of the navy and the army. It was not intended, at this time, to take the city of Wilmington, but merely to seize its defensive outworks, precisely as Farragut recently seized those of Mobile. We are enabled to give to-day both the official report of Admind Porter and a statement of General Butler, as well as a special report of our own correspondent with the fleet. Every one will rea
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Yankee press on. The Wilmington failure. (search)
of distinguishing himself. Yet the fleet did such tremendous work, and seemingly with so much of success, so far as its share of the engagement was concerned, that the public will be apt to cast the odium of failure on General Butler and his advisers. [from the New York times's Correspondent.] Too much dependence was placed on the probable disastrous results to the enemy of the gunpowder explosion. It was believed by those who planned the matter that every gun in the vicinity of Cape Fear would be dismounted by the concussion. I believe the navy had nothing to do with originating the scheme. At any rate, it was a foolish and expensive experiment, which produced no good and brought much evil. After the transports had taken their sudden departure from the scene of action, Admiral Porter declared that he would take Fort Fisher with the navy alone. He is sanguine that the work can be taken if he only goes to work in the right manner. The problem is yet to be solved.
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ushed his reconnaissance close to the Fort, and ascertained that it was uninjured, and that an assaulting party would meet a more bloody and fatal repulse than our troops did at Fort Wagner. He therefore advised their withdrawal, to which General Butler assented. Fort Fisher is more than twice as large, and twice as difficult of assault, as Fort Wagner was. the military authorities, expected that Admiral Porter would run the gauntlet with some of his war vessels by Fort Fisher and up Cape Fear river, and, in concert with the troops, that would be then covered by the gunboats, cut off the Fort from Wilmington and shut up the river, "making the expedition another Mobile affair." when on the ground, Admiral Porter was requested, but refused, to do this. --Farragut, or any of half a dozen officers in Porter's own fleet, would have done it. 8. the assertion that any of our men entered the Fort is a mistake, created by a false rumor started among the soldiers at the close of t
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
be the capture of Wilmington itself. There are reasonable grounds to hope for success, if advantage can be taken of the absence of a great part of the enemy's forces, now looking after Sherman in Georgia. The directions you have given for the number and equipment of the expedition are all right except in the unimportant one of where they embark and the amount of entrenching tools to be taken. The object of the expedition will be gained on effecting a landing on the main land between Cape Fear river and the Atlantic north of the north entrance to the river. Should such landing be effected, whether the enemy hold Fort Fisher or the batteries guarding the entrance to the river there, the troops should entrench themselves, and by co-operating with the navy, effect the reduction and capture of these places. These in our hands, the navy could enter the harbor, and the port of Wilmington would be sealed. Should Fort Fisher and the point of land on which it is built fall into the hands
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The News. Yesterday morning it was known on the streets that Fort Fisher, our principal defensive work at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, had been taken by the enemy at 10 o'clock on the previous night. The news took the community by surprise, as, at the time, there had been no authentic intelligence that the enemy was menacing the fort with a land force. During the day, the following official report, giving all the particulars that are yet known of the fall of the place, was receivedout 10 P. M. the fort was captured, with most of its garrison. "No further particulars at the time known. R. E. Lee." The fall of Fort Fisher, we presume, closes the port of Wilmington. It commands the main entrance to the Cape Fear river, and will, we fear, enable the enemy to blockade the river completely, giving them, as it does, a secure lodgment on the left bank. Fort Caswell and several other works still guard the southern channel of the river. Fort Fisher is thirty m
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The London Times and other English journals are strongly of opinion that it would greatly please the Southern Confederacy to get Great Britain involved in a war with the United States, and that Great Britain ought carefully to avoid such a collision. Of course it ought!--It has too large a debt owing it in the United States; too much at risk in Canada; too many merchantmen on the ocean, to permit, for a moment, the idea of hostilities with the United States, But how can the to the Cape Fear river, and will, we fear, enable the enemy to blockade the river completely, giving them, as it does, a secure lodgment on the left bank. Fort Caswell and several other works still guard the southern channel of the river. Fort Fisher is thirty miles below Wilmington. Some regard the fall of Fisher as a disaster, while many are disposed to consider it a blessing in disguise. The latter, who are, it must be said, a numerous and sensible class, contend that Wilmington, as a seaport, has, fro
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
The news. Since the fall of Fort Fisher there has been no official intelligence made public concerning the movements of the enemy at that point. Our most reliable information is, that the enemy have attempted no advance towards Wilmington. Fort Caswell, which guards the southern mouth of the Cape Fear river, was, at last advices, still held by our troops; but it is feared it will be rendered useless to us by the enemy blockading the river at a point between it and Wilmington. Sherman has resumed active operations. On Saturday last, two corps of his army advanced from Beaufort upon Pocotaligo, which was that night evacuated by our troops, under General McLaws. Sherman, with the remainder of his army his artillery and trains, is reported to be advancing along the Charleston and Savannah railroad. Pocotaligo is on the railroad, forty miles north of Savannah and fifty south of Charleston. Sherman's destination is reported by prisoners and deserters to be Charleston; and
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
et firing, were viewed with intense interest. The rebels having been driven from one mound to another, finally surrendered, at half-past 9 o'clock, which was the time of the first cheer we heard from the gallant victors. Gunboats in Cape Fear river. This (Monday) morning Admiral Porter, on ascertaining that the Zeke Island battery was abandoned, sent five of the double-ender gunboats into the Cape Fear river, following the little tugboat Wilderness, from which grapnels were hung, tCape Fear river, following the little tugboat Wilderness, from which grapnels were hung, to search for torpedoes. They had rounded the "mound" and disappeared behind the woods on their way up the river before the Santiago sailed. Their first object will be to establish a base on the river for the landing of supplies for the army on the peninsula and the garrison of Fort Fisher. A small pier is already there, and an extensive wharf will be immediately built. The supplies now here will be carried into the river and landed, probably some time to-day. At present everything has to b
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
, Colonel Abbott, commanding a brigade of troops, started out from Fort Fisher on the way to Wilmington, North Carolina. A general forward movement of our troops against the town was actively engaged in reconnoitering along the banks of the Cape Fear river, and in sounding for torpedoes and removing obstructions to the free navigation of the river. New York, January 21.--The United States steamer Massachusetts, from the South Atlantic blockading squadron, has arrived. She left Charleston bar on the evening of January 18th, and was off Fort Fisher on Thursday evening. All Admiral Porter's fleet, except the larger vessels, were in Cape Fear river. On the night of the 18th, five blockade-runners ran into New inlet (not knowing of the fall of Fort Fisher), and were captured by our fleet. Their names were not ascertained. The Massachusetts brings two hundred invalids and discharged soldiers. Admiral Porter's report. Washington, January 21. --Admiral Porter, in h
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
, the Virginia alone received any injury. The casing near one of her port holes was somewhat stove in. Our casualties were five killed and fourteen wounded. We have received authentic information that, on Thursday last, a fleet of vessels — men of war, gunboats and transports — came into Hampton Roads.--This is supposed to be the fleet which recently operated so successfully against Fort Fisher. The report that the Tallahassee had been captured while attempting to run into the Cape Fear river is discredited by the War Department. An official dispatch from General Hardee, dated on the 24th, says there are no movements being made by the enemy on either side of the Savannah river.--That is, that Sherman was not demonstrating against either Augusta or Branchville; but, on Wednesday, it was reported in Charleston that the enemy were withdrawing from Pocotaligo, and that a large column was moving from Savannah up the Augusta road. It was reported yesterday that the Presi
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