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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
sea being so rough. We remained there the night of Sunday. On Monday morning (the 19th) Admiral Porter signalled to me that as it was rough we could not land, and he proposed to exercise his fleet. He got his fleet in line of battle by divisions, and sailed all about, I with my ship following the flag-ship. We all sailed within sight of Fort Fisher. That I believed was the first intimation the enemy had that we were off the coast. I am confirmed in my opinion because Lieutenant R. T Chapman, 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 of the mound battery, and it was remarked on the squadron that if we could see them they of course could see us. On the evening of Monday the 19th, the wind hauled rou
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
esses anti-draft demonstration in Boston, 277. Carrolton, Phelps at, 896. Cassels, Col., John, acts investigated, 850; tribute to, 851; on Butler's staff, 897-899. Casey, Major, Thomas Lincoln, report of, 804. Catinet, episode of, 464-465; 468-469. Catholics, legislation against in New Hampshire, 39; in Massachusetts, 120, 122; Mt. Benedict incident, 112-113. century magazine, Gra<*>t in, 715. Chaffin's farm, 653. Chamberlain, The, at Fort Fisher, 787, 792. Chapman, Lieut. R. T., report of, 789 Chapin, Mr., colleague in Charleston Convention, 138-140; offers railroad transportation for troops, 175. Charles City Court-House, Colonel West leads force to, 618; Grant at, 686. Charlestown, opposed to annexation act, 1000-1002. Charleston Mercury edited Clapp, former teacher of Butler, 56; blockade runners enter harbor, 849. Chase, Judge, reference to, 929. Chase, Salmon P., Secretary of Treasury, consultations with, 222-223, 240; acknowledges B