...ring the nights of the 16th and 17th, the Confederates blew up Fort Caswell, on the right an, bank of the river. They also abandoned Battery Holmes, on Smith's Island, and their extensive works at Smithville and Reeves's Point, and fled toward Wilmington. The triumph of the army and navy was now complete. Bragg was in chief command of the Confederates in that region, but. seemed to have been para...