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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence and fall of Fort Fisher. (search)
of the men 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 mstance to the defense of a line established behind it. Nevertheless, it was determined to get a line across at this place, and Paine's division, followed by two of Ames's brigade, made their way through. The night was very dark, much of the ground was a marsh, and illy adapted to the construction of works, and the distance was foix hundred men, but they did not move up promptly, and did not reach the work. The two hundred and fifty officers and men had to withstand the shock of two of General Ames's brigades — more than ten to one. My officers there claim that they twice repulsed the assault on the parapet, and that all of the original detachment at the