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Hebert (search for this): chapter 1.19
gates would drive my men from the guns on the sea face with a few broadsides of grape and canister. I respectfully disagreed with him. The gale increased in severity and continued through the night. The fleet remained at their anchorage during the 21st, the wind shifting to the southwest. During the day a detachment of three officers and twenty-five sailors of the Confederate States Navy reported. During the next day the fleet remained at anchor, their hulls still below the horizon. General Hebert, my immediate commander, also visited me; he was very blue, having really no men to spare from the reduced garrison of the other forts. On the 23d there was no demonstration by the enemy, but I was reinforced by Major James Reilly with two companies of his regiment, the Tenth, 110 men, and a company of the Thirteenth North Carolina Battery, 115 strong, and the Seventh Battalion Junior Reserves, boys between sixteen and eighteen years of age, 140 in number, making a total in the Fort of
Ulysses S. Grant (search for this): chapter 1.19
fire of the navy, and so closely that three or four men of the picket line ventured upon the parapet and through the sally port of the work, capturing a horse which they brought off, killing the orderly, who was a bearer of a dispatch from the Chief of Artillery of General Whiting, to bring a light battery within the fort, and also brought away from the parapet the flag of the fort. This absurd statement was sent North, has been given a lodgment in current history, and is repeated in General Grant's Memoirs, although General Butler corrected the error in his official report. No Federal soldier entered Fort Fisher during this attack except as a prisoner. The courier was sent out of the fort without my knowledge; was killed and his horse captured within the enemy's lines The flag captured was a company flag which I had placed on the extreme left of the work, and it was carried away and thrown off the parapet by an enfilading shot from the navy. The garrison of Fort Fisher was c
Christmas (search for this): chapter 1.19
federate States Navy. An advanced redoubt with a twenty-four pounder was added after the repulse of Butler and Porter, Christmas, 1864. A wharf for large steamers was in close proximity to this work. Battery Buchanan was a citadel to which an ovelockader got aground near the fort, set fire to herself, and blew up. I was surprised to learn from prisoners captured Christmas night that the explosion was that of a great floating magazine, the steamer Louisiana, with more than 250 tons of powde discretion, determined not to assault. There were not enough Federal troops landed to have stormed our palisade that Christmas night. If the assaulting column could have reached the comparatively uninjured palisades through the fire of cannistere fight, but when it is remembered that I had promised the noble women of Wilmington who had visited the fort after our Christmas victory that their homes should be protected by my garrison, and that General Lee had sent word that if the fort fell h
William Lamb (search for this): chapter 1.19
nd 1865. An interesting address by Colonel William Lamb, of Norfolk, Virginia, written at the re truth of history Graphically told. Colonel William Lamb, of Norfolk, Virginia, commandant of Fopices of that Camp. On the platform with Colonel Lamb were Major James Reilly, one of the heroes Waddell. The pleasant task of introducing Colonel Lamb was assigned to Colonel Waddell, and he didsympathy with the Cape Fear Camp, in having Colonel Lamb here, which was to record the truth of histle in the world's history. In presenting Colonel Lamb, Colonel Waddell said we have one with us wd whose memory would never be forgotten. Colonel Lamb was received with warm applause, and after eroine of Confederate Point, is printed what Mrs. Lamb touchingly experienced.—Ed. who came to sharo our esteemed citizen, Major James Reilly. Colonel Lamb's exordium was very eloquent, and although ointed when he concluded. In his address Colonel Lamb alluded to his visit to the old fort yester[1 more...]
Armstrong (search for this): chapter 1.19
nd more imposing as the distance lessened between them and the resolute men who had rallied to defend their homes. The Minnesota, Colorado, and Wabash came grandly on, floating fortresses, each mounting more guns than all the batteries on the land, and the two first combined carrying more shot and shell than all the magazines in the fort contained. From the left salient to the mound Fort Fisher had forty-four guns, and not over 3,600 shot and shell, exclusive of grape and shrapnel. The Armstrong gun had only one dozen rounds of fixed ammunition, and no other projectile could be used in its delicate groves. The order was given to fire no shot until the Columbiad at headquarters fired, and that each gun that bore on a vessel should be fired every thirty minutes, and not oftener except by special order, unless an attempt was made to cross the bar, when every gun bearing on it should be fired as rapidly as accuracy would permit, the smooth bores at richochette. Before coming withi
Madge (search for this): chapter 1.19
nd his wife were received by the people of Wilmington, he entered upon the address that the reader can find elsewhere. He was generously applauded throughout, and there was very hearty applause when he alluded to our esteemed citizen, Major James Reilly. Colonel Lamb's exordium was very eloquent, and although the address was lengthy, the audithe audience was disappointed when he concluded. In his address Colonel Lamb alluded to his visit to the old fort yesterday. He and his daughter, Miss Madge, and his son, Harry Whiting, accompanied by Major James Reilly, Colonel Wm. L. DeRosset, Colonel John D. Taylor, Mr. James C. Stevenson, Mr. W. M. Cumming, Mr. John W. Reilly and T. W. Clawson, of the Messenger, went down to Fort Fisher yesterday morning. The party took the steamer Clarence at 9:30 A. M, and returned to the city last evening shortly after 6 P. M. The party took a trip over the old fort, but little of it now remains except the profile. The land face is completely effac
Braxton Bragg (search for this): chapter 1.19
a landing. It seems incomprehensible that General Bragg should have allowed the Federal troops on al Whiting, that but for the supineness of General Bragg, the 3,500 men who were landed would have incident gave me the first intimation that General Bragg was shamefully ignorant of and indifferentd signal communication between Fort Fisher and Bragg's headquarters, and I got General Whiting to t guns on the mound. Shortly after noon, General Bragg sent Hagood's South Carolina brigade, consd at my request he immediately telegraphed General Bragg at Sugar Loaf as follows: The enemy are them out, and I sent a telegram by him to General Bragg, imploring him to attack, and that I couldainingly from his wounds. He told me that General Bragg had ignored his presence in the fort, and e keep his promise. I again sent a message to Bragg begging him to come to the rescue. Shortly sent to our assistance would rescue us, and if Bragg had ordered Hoke to assault with his division [13 more...]
Raines (search for this): chapter 1.19
umors of an attack reached me, having at times over one thousand men, white and colored, hard at work. In the construction of the mound on the extreme right of the seaface, which occupied six months, two inclined railways, worked by steam, supplemented the labor of men. Although Fort Fisher was far from completed when attacked by the Federal fleet, it was the largest seacoast fortification in the Confederate States. The plans were my own, and as the work progressed were approved by French, Raines, Longstreet, Beauregard and Whiting. It was styled by Federal engineers after the capture, the Malakoff the South. It was built solely with the view of resisting the fire of a fleet, and it stood uninjured, except as to armament, two of the fiercest bombardments the world has ever witnessed. The morning after I took command of the fort, I noticed a blockader lying a little over a mile from the bar, not two miles from the works. I asked if she was not unusually close in, and was answere
Bolles (search for this): chapter 1.19
fort, but little of it now remains except the profile. The land face is completely effaced by the ocean and the elements, but enough of the battery elevations yet remain for them to be correctly pointed out by those familiar with them. Battery Bolles, the first part of the fortifications built, was identified as the second knoll north of what was known as the Mound Battery. The Mound, which was sixty feet in height, still remains, but as it was merely a heap of sand it has been blown down toently when fired at a blockader, without loss of life, and was replaced with a ten-inch Columbiad.) To the right and rear of this and some two hundred yards apart, were two batteries, each having two barbette guns of moderate calibre, one called Bolles and the other I called Hedrick Battery, after the former gallant commander of the fort. There was besides these batteries a large commissary bomb proof. There were only seventeen guns of respectable calibre, including thirty-two pounders. Ther
James Longstreet (search for this): chapter 1.19
n attack reached me, having at times over one thousand men, white and colored, hard at work. In the construction of the mound on the extreme right of the seaface, which occupied six months, two inclined railways, worked by steam, supplemented the labor of men. Although Fort Fisher was far from completed when attacked by the Federal fleet, it was the largest seacoast fortification in the Confederate States. The plans were my own, and as the work progressed were approved by French, Raines, Longstreet, Beauregard and Whiting. It was styled by Federal engineers after the capture, the Malakoff the South. It was built solely with the view of resisting the fire of a fleet, and it stood uninjured, except as to armament, two of the fiercest bombardments the world has ever witnessed. The morning after I took command of the fort, I noticed a blockader lying a little over a mile from the bar, not two miles from the works. I asked if she was not unusually close in, and was answered no. I t
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