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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
he enemy provided with the most efficient means of attack, should have been forced to surrender, is, therefore, not a matter for surprise. The defence, though of brief duration, was gallant and honorable to the valor of the sons of the Old North State; and the surrender was certainly as free from humiliation as any surrender may be. The reduction of the fort, in this case, as at Fort Pulaski, was effected by the agency of the powerful breaching batteries of the enemy, mounting the heaviest Parrott guns. These batteries were planted in positions almost under the walls of the fort, yet hidden from the view of the garrison by the conformation of the neighboring sand hills. For thirteen hours an incessant fire was maintained from the Parrott guns, breaching the walls, completely wrecking the interior of the fort, dismounting every gun that bore upon the Yankees, and killing nine and wounding sixteen of our men. Under these circumstances, Col. White, the commanding officer, yielded the