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August 27th (search for this): article 5
The bombardment and capture of forts Clark and Hatteras. This exploit of the Federalists continues to occupy a large share of public attention, both North and South. We subjoin some extracts from the narrative of an officer on board the C. S. steamer Ellis, which started for the forts with reinforcements on the 27th of August, the day before the attack commenced: The voyage up the Sound. Proceeding up the Sound, we came up with the little dispatch boat M. C. Downing, just from Hatteras, bringing up the intelligence that the patriotic little band of 100 men, who were at Fort Clark, a little above Fort Hatteras, after making a desperate resistance, firing their last shot had evacuated the fort, having previously rendered the guns useless by spiking and dismounting them, and that the vandal horde of the North, led on by a traitorous Methodist minister, had landed and taken possession of the fort, and now the "Stars and Stripes. " were floating over the time-honored soil of
August 29th (search for this): article 5
nd immediately put forth their whole efforts to retrieve the sad reverses which we on that day suffered. The fight lasted for a day and a half, out of which time there were 14 hours of incessant firing, during which time they threw some 4 or 5,000 shot and shell. After finding the fort had surrendered, and that we could be of no possible use, we left for Ocracoke to take on board the sad and weeping wives of the officers now prisoners. The cannonade Renewed. The next morning, August 29th, a day ever memorable to those who witnessed or participated in this sublime but terrible contest, rose calm and beautiful. This was just what the Yankees wished. * * * * * At 8½ A. M., the frigate Wabash steamed up, and as she passed Fort Clark, the "Stars and Stripes" were waved three times to her from the parapet of the fort, which she acknowledged by dipping her colors. She then rounded to, dropped anchor, and opened fire upon the fort. She was immediately joined by the Susqueh
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