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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
uary, I found all the men that were to constitute the assaulting column on shore. There were about three hundred and sixty-five (365) men in line, exclusive of Lieutenant Fagan, who had been ordered by Captain Breese to occupy a rifle-pit off to the right, near the army advance, before I had reached the shore. I hastily divided the line into four (4) companies, under command of Captain Butler, First-Lieutenant Wallace, First-Lieutenant Corrie and First-Lieutenant Parker, giving First-Lieutenant Williams charge of some twenty-five (25) skirmishers, and First-Lieutenant Meeker acting as adjutant. I received two or three orders from Captain Breese to bring up the marines at once; that it would be late : so that I had to move off without time to equalize the companies; to number them off for pacing and marching; to select sergeants to replace officers, or post the guides of a single company or platoon. 1 took the marines up, and filed across the peninsula in front of the sailors, wi