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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Navy at Fort Fisher. (search)
ay and night was very hard upon these small vessels, and the officers and crew of my own vessel, the Huron, were worn out. Fort Fisher was at this time much stronger than at the first attack. The garrison had been reenforced by veteran troops, damages by the first bombardment had been repaired, and new defenses added; among which was a battery of light pieces in a half-moon around the sally-port, from whose fire the sailors suffered heavily in their assault. Colonel Lamb, writing, December, 1888, says: There were never in Fort Fisher, including sick, killed, and wounded, over 1900 men. [See detailed statement, p. 661.] The sailors and marines, etc., captured from Battery Buchanan, and those captured in front of the work. while swelling the list of prisoners, cannot rightly be counted among the defenders of the work. No new defense was added to the face of the fort between the battles. Tile redoubt in front of the sally-port was there in December and had been used against