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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ly demonstrated by the progress of this war, it is that ships are no match for forts properly constructed and defended with determination. The whole history of war establishes the same fact, but the improvements made by the introduction of steam and of iron-clads, and the ridiculous surrender of sundry Southern forts to gunboats, had led to some doubts upon the subject. These doubts are now forever set at rest. Fort Sumter, which drove back in inglorious defeat the tremendous armament of Dahlgren, besides resisting for nearly a year an incessant bombardment from land, led the way in establishing the superiority of land fortifications to floating batteries; and now Fort Fisher has given an illustration of the same truth which will never be forgotten. This little fort, furiously assailed by over fifty ships of war, including two monitors, several armored vessels, and a large proportion of heavily-armed frigates and sloops, has not only made a successful defence, but come out absolute