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The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], The fall of Fort Fisher. (search)
guns — sufficient, could they have been used, to make it impossible that any force could have advanced under their fire. But, as the line of assailants got nearer to the fort, the whole fleet concentrated the fire, in ricochet shot, on the land side, and speedily dismounted every gun; and this unintermittent " fou d'enfor"--or, in plain English, hell fire--was kept up until the enemy's line was in sixty yards of the works. Then it ceased, and with a rush and yell the charge was made.--Captain Braddy, it is said, commanded the company guarding the sally-port. On him the hope of the garrison bung to keep the assailants out until the men and officers, who had been packed in the bomb proofs for fifty-six hours, could get out and make ready. Instead of making defence, this officer and his command, it is said, surrendered, and the enemy entered the open gate. Our men were benumbed and exhausted, and the thing was the work of a moment.--They were obliged to fall back in order to rally.