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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 214 14 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
ckly took advantage of. Between that right and the river was a space of open country, for a mile, picketed by only about one hundred and fifty negro cavalry. To turn that flank was Beauregard's first care. At the same time a division under General Whiting was to move from the Richmond road, strike Gillmore heavily, and cut off the Union line of retreat. The plan, if fully carried out, would, it seemed, insure the capture or dispersion of Butler's army. General Heckman's brigade, of Weitzetching of telegraph wire from stump to stump, a short distance above the ground, ill front of his line, which tripped the assailants when they charged, in the dense fog, and they were shot or bayoneted before they could rise. They recoiled; and Whiting, failing to obey Beauregard's orders to seize the Union way of retreat on the left, the plans of the Confederate general entirely miscarried. Seeing this, Beauregard renewed his effort to turn Smith's right, and so far succeeded, with a heavier
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
rints, pointed so certainly to an expedition W. H. C. Whiting. against Wilmington, that the Confederates stson. The skillful engineer and commander, General W. H. C. Whiting, was then in charge of the Confederates inely uninjured, and, according to a statement of General Whiting, only one man of the garrison of Fort Fisher wabeing blown up, burst up, &c., the statement of General Whiting shows that the damage was very slight, and that good spirits, according to a statement made by General Whiting, on his dying bed. Responses from the fort had n kept up all day. The garrison was at no time, General Whiting said, driven from its guns, and fired in returny, six hundred and sixty-two shot and shell. General Whiting was wounded in a second attack on Fort Fisher, ns, touching the first attack on Fort Fisher; which Whiting promptly answered. A certified copy of these questthe attacking party had any chance of success. General Whiting's replies to General Butler's questions on that
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
aches; the whole palisade swept away; the mines [or torpedoes] cut off, rendering them useless, and the men unable to stand to the parapets during the fire. --General Whiting's Answer to General Butler's 22d Question. In the arrangement for the general attack by land and water, the fleet was to first concentrate its fire on theackman's regiment; and then the whole of the garrison not already in the hands of Terry, were captured, including Colonel Lamb, the commander of the fort, and General Whiting, who was mortally wounded. The fall of Fort Fisher rendered all the other works at the mouth of the Cape Fear River untenable, and during the nights of thet. seemed to have been paralyzed by the prompt establishment, by Terry, of an intrenched line across the peninsula and the rapid assault by land and water. General Whiting said, It was due to the supineness of the Confederate General that it [the attacking force] was not destroyed in the act of assault. --Answer to Butler's 24th