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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
hapman, commanding the rebel battery Buchanan, which was the mound battery just below Fort Fisher, begins his report to the Confederate authorities on the 29th of December, 1864, in these words: I reported to you on the 20th inst. that the enemy had arrived off this place. When we were exercising the fleet it did go within sight ocosting millions of dollars given up when the hollowness of the rebel shell was about to be exposed. Again:-- Confidential letter to Secretary Welles, December 29, 1864. And now, sir, I beg that you will allow me to work this thing out, and leave nothing undone to take the place. Could I depend on the sailors for landinl Weitzel went on shore, determined what the report of the defences would be, for General Butler had made an opinion for him. Confidential letter to Welles, Dec. 29, 1864. （See Appendix No. 138.) . . . If this temporary failure succeeds in sending General Butler into private life it is not to be regretted, for it cost only a
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
nd; and yet it is captured by a handful of men under the fire of the guns of the fleet, and in seven hours after the attack commenced in earnest. . . . We expended, in the bombardment, about fifty thousand shells, and have as much more on hand. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, David D. Porter, Rear-Admiral. Conduct of the War, No. 5, p. 187. [no. 138. see pages 810, 811, 818, and 819.] North Atlantic Squadron, United States flag-Ship Malvern, Beaufort, N. C., Dec. 29, 1864. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.: Sir:--. . . Well, sir, it could have been taken on Christmas with five hundred men, without losing a soldier; there were not twenty men in the forts, and those were poor, miserable, panic-stricken people, cowering there with fear, while one or two desperate men in one of the upper casemates, some distance above Fort Fisher, managed to fire one gun that seldom hit anyone.... General Weitzel went on shore, determined what