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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Yankee press on. The Wilmington failure. (search)
ed by the guns of the fort and the musketry fire of the garrison. There is no reason to suppose Fort Fisher would have done worse or Butler's troops have fared better. Fisher is a stronger work than Wagner, and no troops could be braver than the Fifty- fourth Massachusetts. Admitting that the comparison is true, which it is not, did General Gillmore, in the language of the President, "turn tail" after the failure of the first assault, and, scampering to his transports, hurry off to Port Royal? By no means. On the contrary, he held on to the vantage ground which he had secured, laid siege to the stronghold, and in time captured it, with its valuable supplies of cannon and ammunition, thereby sealing up Charleston harbor. Had this able engineer, or Baldy Smith — both of whom were sent into retirement at General Butler's dictum — been in command of the troops at Fort Fisher, this affair would have had a different termination. [from the New York World.] Whether General