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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
h I found picketed. After satisfying myself that the picket had no reserve, we made a quick dash and captured two men without alarm, and before they became aware of our purpose I disarmed them, and after compelling them to follow me for about five miles I paroled them, leaving them apparently much satisfied at their release. They were members of Company A, 51st North Carolina Infantry, and represented their regiment as being much demoralized. After hard riding night and day, I reached Drowning Creek at a point near the town of Lumbertown on the afternoon of the 11th; here I first learned definitely of the whereabouts of General Sherman's forces. I met a small scouting party near the creek, but they fled to the woods at our approach. On the morning of to-day I had the great satisfaction of meeting the rear scouts of General Sherman's forces on the Lumber Bridge road, about twenty miles from this place. The several roads being blocked up by wagons, artillery, etc., and our horses