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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence and fall of Fort Fisher. (search)
amer Chicamauga, in full view of the General's camp, it is hard to understand his ignorance of their presence on the beach. The letter proceeds: Believing myself that Grant's army could not storm and carry the fort, if it was defended, I felt perfect confidence that we were not only safe, but that the enemy had assumed a most precarious position, from which he would escape with great difficulty. If the fort had remained in the condition in which General Bragg saw it previous to January 13th, Grant's army could not have stormed and carried it. It had twenty heavy guns bearing on the beach, supplemented with one mortar and four Napoleons. In front was a perfect palisade line pierced for musketry, and constructed in irregular lines, giving an enfilading fire for light artillery, and in advance were numerous sub-terra mines capable of blowing up the beach from river to sea for more than one hundred yards in front of the works. Although constructed primarily with a view to prev