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known, but the following statement by the Philadelphia North American of the immense barriers of routine opinion which he had the boldness to attack and demolish at the same time, best shows what stuff the man is made of: It is stated that Gen. Wright, for three years chief of the engineer bureau at Washington, after a careful survey pronounced most positively against the practicability of an attack on Pulaski, stating that there is not old iron enough in America to take that fort. Gen. Totten, long the head of the entire engineer corps, is reported to have said, you might as well undertake to bombard the Rocky mountains from Tybee as Fort Pulaski. Gen. Robert E. Lee gave rebel testimony to the same point: "The enemy may fill your fort with shot and shell, but they can not breach its walls." But the incredulous Gillmore insisted on an opportunity to drag some cannon miles across floating marshes to a little firm land, on which he proposed to plant them for a breaching battery,