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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ves between Fort Fisher and Wilmington. This would have been awkward for us. Yesterday the Yankee fleet was reported to have hauled off from in front of Fort Fisher, after having made two feeble attacks on Monday night. A word on the topography of the mouth of the Cape Fear river and our defences there may be found interesting. At the bar, the channel runs within fifty or sixty yards of the shore and close under the guns of Fort Fisher and Fort Lamb, while, at the western bar, Fort Caswell guards it equally well. Beside these main defences are several minor batteries strung along the beach, located at points that, to an engineer's eye, seemed to bear most upon the track of vessels coming into the river. There is, also, close by Fort Fisher, and on a point of land between the "Rip" and the bar, a large earthwork or mound, erected by Colonel Lamb (commander of the forts), which mounts some powerful guns. For several months past this has been a terror to the fleet outside,