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st bombardment to which any fort or town was ever subjected. But let us take up the thread of events where my last letter left it. As soon as the enemy's infantry had gained a foothold on the mainland, on Sunday afternoon, the 25th instant, they threw themselves across the narrow spit of on the southeastern extremity of which Fort Fisher stands, and thus got between Kirkland's brigade and the fort, while Kirkland was between them and Wilmington. They moved forward immediately against Fisher, and attempted to carry it by a coup de main; but the brave garrison, quitting their guns and taking up their muskets, easily repulsed them. A second assault was made, and with the like result; after which the enemy withdrew up the beach beyond the reach of the Confederate fire and went to work entrenching themselves under cover of their protecting fleet.--They made some prisoners among the junior reserves when they advanced down against the fort; but beyond this our less was small, being l