Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Forts Thompson” in chapter 4 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...d their pitchpine fires to enjoy a drenching from the freshly pouring skies.
A dense fog covered land and water next morning, as our fleet, having safely passed the obstructions, steamed up past Forts Thompson and Ellis; which, after firing a few shots, were hastily evacuated, a shell from one of the gunboats having exploded the magazine of the latter.
Fort Lane, the last and strongest defense of Newbern...
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