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New Inlet (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
had their rations and ammunition ruined by water. With this exception, no accident of any kind occurred. Captain H. C. Lockwood, Aid-de-Camp to General Ames, says: The first troops were landed on the beach about four miles north of New Inlet. Pickets were thrown out in every direction. The enemy did not make any opposition to this movement. In fact, not a single shot was fired at our troops at this time. The landing was accomplished amid the greatest enthusiasm of the soldiers.f any rank and many men were too drunk for duty. For General Bragg to repeat the slanders, circulated, we presume, by some gossiping subalterns, was adding insult to injury. My whole command which, previous to the attacks, had extended from New Inlet to Masonboroa, some twenty miles, had been noted for its sobriety. I had been sent to Fort Fisher to discipline the garrison against the temptations incident to blockade running. My first act on taking command, July 4, 1862, was to suspend an
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
s to have silenced the sharpshooters, and the few who landed, without works to defend them, would have been at the mercy of our troops at night. The fact that not a single gun on our sea-face was dismounted, and very few of our soldiers killed and wounded at the guns, shows that the direct fire of the fleet could not have done much damage among sharpshooters behind the works and sand-hills lying parallel to the sea-beach. And yet not one gun was fired upon these invaders of the soil of North Carolina. Admiral Porter says the landing was effected without opposition. General Terry says: At 3 o'clock P. M. (13th) nearly 8,000 men, with three days rations in their haversacks, and forty rounds of ammunition in their boxes, six days supply of hard bread in bulk, 300,000 additional rounds of small arm ammunition, and a sufficient number of entrenching tools, had been safely landed. The surf on the beach was still quite high, notwithstanding that the weather had become very pleasant,
Headquarters (Washington, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
h, and the land face was in the condition in which I have described it, and all had been reported to General Bragg. The only favorable report sent on Sunday was concerning the undiminished courage and endurance of the troops. General Bragg says: During Sunday I was greatly disturbed by the tone and phraseology of General Whiting's dispatches and by reports of others received from him in town. Here is the dispatch which disturbed but could not arouse the apathetic Bragg: Headquarters, Third military district, Fort Fisher, 1.30 P. M., January 14, 1865. General Bragg, Commanding, etc.: General — I send this boat (Cape Fear) to town for coal and wood, with the request that she return at once. She is necessary here for our communication. The game of the enemy is very plain to me. They are now furiously bombarding my land front. They will continue to do that, in order, if possible, to silence my guns, until they are satisfied that their land force has securely establ
Liverpool (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
t, I take it for granted it is untrue as to all. I know of no officer or private in my command who was interested in blockade running. Of the very many captains who came in and went out under the protection of my guns, all will testify that I not only never asked, but refused to allow cotton or any articles of merchandise to be carried for me. Without my knowledge or consent, unknown parties sent out ten bales of cotton in my name and notified me, through Trenholm & Co., that they were in Liverpool, subject to my order. I immediately ordered them sold, and the proceeds to be invested in two one hundred and thirty-pounder Whitworth rifles, and ammunition for Fort Fisher. The order was executed. Some of the ammunition arrived, but the guns never got nearer than Nassau. Many vessels which were beached to save them from capture were protected by my light artillery, and details were made to recover the cargoes so valuable to our people. For these important services I allowed the me
Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
to allow cotton or any articles of merchandise to be carried for me. Without my knowledge or consent, unknown parties sent out ten bales of cotton in my name and notified me, through Trenholm & Co., that they were in Liverpool, subject to my order. I immediately ordered them sold, and the proceeds to be invested in two one hundred and thirty-pounder Whitworth rifles, and ammunition for Fort Fisher. The order was executed. Some of the ammunition arrived, but the guns never got nearer than Nassau. Many vessels which were beached to save them from capture were protected by my light artillery, and details were made to recover the cargoes so valuable to our people. For these important services I allowed the men to be paid a moderate compensation for their labor and injury to clothing, by those interested in the cargoes; indeed, I felt that I had no right to prevent their receiving so trifling a remuneration. From the repulse of General Butler and Admiral Porter on Christmas day,
Charleston Harbor (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
t it was able to reduce it in spite of all I could do. The fleet, after dismounting our guns, could have arranged itself above their land forces, and no spot of ground for six miles above Fort Fisher could have been held by our land forces. Owing to the depth of water they could get nearer to us than they could to Fort Fisher, and could sweep every-thing to the middle of the river. The same operation, on a much smaller scale was entirely successful against the forts at the mouth of Charleston harbor, except that they were well defended by sober, resolute men, until it was necessary to evacuate, and the harbor was closed by the fall of Fort Wagner. * * But enough for the present. I am both tired and sad. I knew my wife would be welcome with you, but I feared it would look badly for me to send her off in the panic, and I concluded for her to remain. It has had a good effect on the weak and nervous. * * * * * * Will you please send me by express the barrel of flour you have
Masonboro Sound (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
he sound, were a series of batteries, curtains and sand hills, giving excellent protection to infantry against the fire of the fleet. Both nature and art combined to make a landing of troops from beyond the close range of the fort to the head of the sound impossible in the face of a few thousand determined troops, who could have moved from point to point behind the works and hills unobserved by the enemy. It was the opinion of Whiting, Beauregard and Longstreet that a landing south of Masonboro sound was impracticable in the face of a well handled force on shore. The fleet in the day could not have fired over their friends so effectively as to have silenced the sharpshooters, and the few who landed, without works to defend them, would have been at the mercy of our troops at night. The fact that not a single gun on our sea-face was dismounted, and very few of our soldiers killed and wounded at the guns, shows that the direct fire of the fleet could not have done much damage among s
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
ended at the moment of assault to explode one of them, and thus paralyze the assailants, giving me time to man the parapets with all of my reserves. At the final rush, I gave the signal, but there was no response — the tremendous fire of the fleet having ploughed up the connecting wires and rendered the mines harmless. As this was our main defence against assault on the extreme left, where the only remaining obstacle to an entrance into the fort was the remnants of a palisade and a single Napoleon, the failure of the mines to explode was enough to discourage the stoutest hearts, but it only seemed to make the men more stubborn in their resistance. As soon as the sailors and marines retreated, I moved the whole of my available infantry some eight hundred men to dislodge the enemy, who had captured the left salient, two gun-chambers adjoining, and were busy entrenching inside my work. The heroic Whiting, who had rushed to the parapet and encouraged the troops in resisting the naval b
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
tant event of the war. Letter from General Braxton Bragg. Wilmington, 20th January, 1865. My Dear Thomas: Your very kind note of thor has been summoned to his final account. The letter bears date Wilmington, January 20, 1865, and was written to Ex-Governor Thomas Bragg. Gline across the peninsula from Cape Fear river to the sea, facing Wilmington, so as to protect our rear from attack while we should be engagedeping with the whole of General Bragg's conduct of the defence of Wilmington. The letter continues: About 3 o'clock P. M. Sunday evenr. An outburst of musketry from the north — to me an attack from Wilmington upon my northern picket line — an attempt to force our northern lertainly whip the enemy again. He then told me that when he left Wilmington, Bragg was looking for a place to fall back upon. I tendered himn warned of the returning fleet, but reported its reappearance to Wilmington from the fort. I have never complained of this, and mention it n
Christmas (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
ed to do, and if they are permitted to remain there the reduction of Fort Fisher is but a question of time. This has been notified heretofore frequently both to yourself and to the department. I will hold this place to the last extremity, but unless you drive that land force from its position I cannot answer for the security of the harbor. The fire has been and continues to be exceedingly heavy, surpassing not so much in its volume as in its extraordinary concentration, even the fire of Christmas. The garrison is in good spirits and condition. I am, General, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. H. C. Whiting, Major-General. General Bragg goes on to say: As a good officer had been sent in command of the reinforcements I ordered General Whiting on Saturday evening to report to me in person. This order he declined to obey, as he had done one before about moving troops. My mind was now made up as to his condition and I felt that the safety of the fort requi
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