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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bombardment and capture of forts Clark and Hatteras . (search)
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