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may be; they quite understand that their Government can have no motive in acting on this case but to do what seems best for the country. Naval officers retired The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune sends the following list of retired naval officers, under the, recent bill which passed Congress to promote the efficiency of the navy; Commodores Shubrick, Kearney, Smith, Storer, Gregory, McCauley, Lavallette, Aulick, Stringham, Mervine, Armstrong, Paulding, Crabbe, Breeze, Levy, Ramsey, Long, Conover, Luman, McCluney, Montgomery, Striboling, Sands, Bell, Jarvis, Pendergrast, Nicholson, Pull, Chauncey, Kelly, Paragut, Gardner, Wilson, Dornier, Glynn, Angle, Rudd, Ritchie, McKean, Mercer, Golusborongh, Lounds, Marston, Adams, Walker, Pearson, Nicholas, Dapont, Hudson, and Pope. There are also quite a number of surgeons, pay masters, and other officers, who come under the provisions of this bill. The four flag offers — Goldsborough, of the North Atlant
y retreated, and their bodies were left strewn along the beach, together with many of the wounded, the rebel sharpshooters afterwards amusing themselves by firing at these unfortunate creatures. They also killed a number of the wounded in this way, who fell near the ditch. Those who remained under cover behind the palisades, about two hundred in number, burrowed into the sand, and thus protected themselves from the volleys that were constantly poured into them. Among these were Flag Captain Breeze, Lieutenant Farquhar, of the Santiago, and others, who made their escape after dark. Ensign Dayton, of the Nereus, who had been for eleven months a prisoner along with Lieutenant Preston and Lieutenant Porter, at Charleston, observing his two comrades fall, seized a rifle and devoted himself to revenge for the outrages inflicted on him and them. When Colonel Lamb, the rebel commander of the fort, was observed standing on one of the ramparts, with his sword drawn and cheering on his
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Yankee Reasons for the fall of Fort Fisher. (search)
weakening the resistance to their attack." And so were Butler's men brave, and so were their leaders; but the bravest men can't do impossible things; and it was a totally impossible thing for Butler's one thousand two hundred men to take that fort. Had it not been for the co-operation of the fleet in its fire, it is reasonably certain that the assault by Terry would have disastrously failed. Secretary Stanton has, in these few words, described the amazing strength of the fort: "Work unsurpassed, if ever equalled, in strength, and which General Beauregard a few days before pronounced impregnable." If the disposition to co-operate with Butler had existed in the fleet, it could not have persistently co-operated with his assault, if he had persistently made one; for, when Butler was about to move to the attack, Captain Breeze, of the navy, Admiral Porter's chief of staff, informed General Weitzel and Colonel Comstock that the fleet had but one hour's supply of ammunition left.