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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
Navy, some of which were confidential, begging him to keep the fleet there until more troops could be sent down. To induce the secretary to yield to his desire, he reported the fort as being undefended and incapable of defence, and he threw aspersions upon me for not making the attack, when to do so and to capture the fort was entirely feasible. Let us see Porter's description of the fort, and its capabilities of defence at the first attack. He says:-- Porter's Official Report, December 27, 1864. There never was a fort that invited soldiers to walk in and take possession more plainly than Fort Fisher. . . We silenced the guns in one hour and fifteen minutes time without the loss of a man [that I have heard of] except by the bursting of our own guns, in the entire fleet. We have shown the weakness of this fort. It can be taken at any moment in one hour's time if the right man is sent with the troops. Again he says:-- Porter's Report, December 31, 1864. （See Append
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ng my. action will meet with the approval of the lieutenant-general, this report is respectfully submitted. Benjamin F. Butler, Major-General. [Official copy.] E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. Adjutant-General's Office, Nov. 18, 1865. Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Fort Fisher, p. 35. [no. 127. see page 798.] headquarters Department Virginia and North Carolina, Report before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Fort Fisher, p. 26. Fortress Monroe, Dec. 27, 1864, 8 P. M. Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, City Point, Virginia: I have just returned from the expedition. We had a storm from Monday until Friday, which was the earliest hour I could get out of Beaufort, where I had put in for coal, most of the transport fleet having got out of coal and water. Without waiting for my return Admiral Porter exploded the torpedo at one (1) o'clock on Friday morning and commenced his attack at twelve fifty-five (12.55) in the afternoon, twelve hours afterwards.