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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed, bearing on the beach and covering a strip of land, the only practical route, not wide enough for a thousand men in line of battle. Having captured Flag-Pond battery, the garrison of which, sixty-five men and two commissioned officers, were taken off by the navy; we also captured Half-Moon battery, and seven officers and two hundred and eight men of the Third North Carolina junior reserves, including its commander, from whom I learned that a portion of Hoke's division, consisting of Kirkland's and Haygood's brigades, had been sent from the lines before Richmond on Tuesday last, arriving at Wilmington on Friday night. General Weitzel advanced his skirmish line within fifty yards of the fort, while the garrison was kept in their bomb-proofs by the fire of the navy, and so closely that three or four men of the picket line ventured upon the parapet, and through the sally-port of the works, capturing a horse, which they brought off, killing the orderly, who was the bearer of a d
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. 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 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 less than fifty killed and wounded. Nearly all of our casualties consist of light wounds, but few having been killed. Among the wo