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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], Fort Fisher after the bombardment. (search)
ed to. He says of it: "Within a stone's throw of the fort, on the side of the road leading from the landing, in a small hole something of the length and shape of a coffin, and a few feet from it, is an humble ridge of earth marked by a piece of board at each end. The hole is a rifle-pit dug by one of four or five enterprising Yankee sharpshooters who ventured up that near to the fort with the view of picking off our gunners. The ridge of earth marks the grave of a courier, a member of Faison's company of scouts, who was shot from his horse by the occupant of the rifle pit. All of this party of Yankees were either killed or captured. "The fort itself shows more plainly the marks of the enemy's fire. Deep holes are dug in the parapets, and many of the traverses are marked and scarred. On entering at the upper end, we found the soldiers at work repairing their wooden quarters, which had been dreadfully shattered by the shell, but not burned. Farther on, brick chimneys in so