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Wiley H. Williford (search for this): chapter 14.96
ugh an aide, with the steamers at his command, could have detected every movement of the enemy; but now, thirty-six hours after the fight had commenced, several hours after Craig's Landing had been in the possession of the enemy, he Lieutenant Wiley H. Williford, C. S. A. From a photograph. sent into the enemy's lines a steamer full of sorely needed stores, which at night could have gone to Battery Buchanan in safety. We had both telegraphic and signal communication between Fort Fisher and ame moment, and, calling on the men to pull down those flags and drive the enemy from the work, rushed toward them on the parapet. Among those who followed Whiting, and who gave his young life upon those ramparts, I must mention the brave Lieutenant Williford, who commanded the Blakely battery. In order to make a careful reconnoissance of the position of the enemy, I passed through the sally-port, and outside of the work witnessed a savage hand-to-hand conflict for the possession of the four
W. H. C. Whiting (search for this): chapter 14.96
a dispatch from the chief of artillery of General Whiting, to bring a light battery within the fortus, New York Harbor, February 19th, 1865, General Whiting blames General Bragg for the loss of Forthe Secretary of War, on January 13th; and General Whiting concludes with a feeling reference to the ranks, I held in reserve the infantry fire. Whiting stood upon the brink of the parapet inspiring Federal battle-flags upon our ramparts. General Whiting saw them at the same moment, and, callinghem on the parapet. Among those who followed Whiting, and who gave his young life upon those rampaheir guns, being too close to load and fire. Whiting had quickly been wounded by two shots and hadcome to the rescue, and it would save us. General Whiting remarked, Lamb, when you die I will assumightly of my wound. I asked him to carry General Whiting to a place of safety, as he had come to t Colquitt made a precipitate retreat, leaving Whiting behind. General Whiting died a prisoner at[9 more...]
George E. Welles (search for this): chapter 14.96
the main work, putting 300 men on top of the bastion and adjoining parapets and holding some 200 more in the adjoining batteries. About 250 remained for defense on the left, to which I supposed the 350 South Carolinians would immediately be added, and these with the Napoleon and the torpedoes I felt sure would successfully defend that portion of the work. The assaulting line on the right was directed at the angle or point of the L, and consisted of two thousand sailors and marines, Secretary Welles, in his report of the Navy Department, December 4th, 1865, says: Fourteen hundred sailors and marines were landed and participated in the direct assault ; but Admiral Porter in his report, dated off Fort Fisher, January 17th, 1865, says: I detailed 1600 sailors and 400 marines to accompany the troops in the assault — the sailors to board the sea-face, while the troops assaulted the land side.--editors. the greater portion of whom had flanked my torpedo lines by keeping close to the sea.
Godfrey Weitzel (search for this): chapter 14.96
t was after a careful reconnoissance on December 25th, 1864, having drawn our fire by an advance of his skirmish-line to within 75 yards of the fort, that General Godfrey Weitzel, finding the works substantially uninjured by the explosion of the powder-ship [see p. 655] and the two days terrific bombardment of Porter's great armadaally engaged, and that the remainder of Hoke's division had come the night before to Wilmington, and were then on the march, if they had not already arrived. General Weitzel reported to me that to assault the work, in his judgment, and in that of the experienced officers of his command who had been on the skirmish-line, with any piticism he had himself to blame. On the evening of the 25th, before waiting for official reports, he listened to camp gossip and wrote to Admiral Porter: General Weitzel advanced his skirmish-line within fifty yards of the fort, while the garrison was kept in their bomb-proofs by the fire of the navy, and so closely that three
W. H. Walling (search for this): chapter 14.96
er was sent out of the fort without my knowledge, and was killed and his horse captured within the enemy's lines. The flag captured was a small company flag, placed on the extreme left of the work, and which was carried away and thrown off the parapet by an enfilading shot from the navy. It was during a terrific bombardment of the land-face, when I had ordered my men to cover them-selves behind parapet and traverses as well as in the bomb-proofs. Amid the smoke of bursting shells, Captain W. H. Walling, of the 142d New York, gallantly crawled through the broken palisade and carried off the flag, doing what two or more men could not have done without observation. The angle of the work hid him from the sharp-shooters on the front, who, from behind traverses, were watching for an advance. When Butler's skirmish-line approached I purposely withheld the fire of infantry and artillery until an attack should be made in force. Only one gun on the land-face had been seriously disabled
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14.96
hey had not already arrived. General Weitzel reported to me that to assault the work, in his judgment, and in that of the experienced officers of his command who had been on the skirmish-line, with any prospect of success, was impossible. This opinion coincided with my own, and mulch as I regretted the necessity of abandoning the attempt, yet the path of duty was plain. Not so strong a work as Fort Fisher had been taken by assault during the war, and I had to guide me the experience of Port Hudson, with its slaughtered thousands in the repulsed assault, and the double assault of Fort Wagner, where thousands were sacrificed in an attempt to take a work less strong than Fisher, after it had been subjected to a more continued and fully as severe fire. And in neither of the instances I have mentioned had the assaulting force in its rear, as I had, an army of the enemy larger than itself. I therefore ordered that no assault should be made, and that the troops should reembark. editors
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 14.96
sulting loss of all the Cape Fear River defenses, and of Wilmington, the great importing depot of the South, effectually endas Onslow Bay and the Cape Fear River running south from Wilmington form the peninsula known as Federal Point, which, duringemainder of Hoke's division had come the night before to Wilmington, and were then on the march, if they had not already arris seen the North-east salient, overlooking the sea. of Wilmington, and there had a grand review. The fort was not even adarrival was reported from Fort Fisher to headquarters il Wilmington. The night of the 12th of January, from the ramparts whip the enemy again. He then told me that when he left Wilmington General Bragg was hastily removing his stores and ammunieneral Bragg was charged with the command and defense of Wilmington, by the Secretary of War, on January 13th; and General W letter from General Braxton Bragg to his brother, dated Wilmington, five days after the fall of Fort Fisher (first publishe
Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 14.96
that the great victory was not fully realized by the American people. The position commanded the last gateway between the Confederate States and the outside world. [See outline map, p. 629; also map, p. 694.] Its capture, with the resulting loss of all the Cape Fear River defenses, and of Wilmington, the great importing depot of the South, effectually ended all blockade-running. Lee sent me word that Fort Fisher must be held, or he could not subsist his army. The indentation of the Atlantic Ocean in the Carolina coast known as Onslow Bay and the Cape Fear River running south from Wilmington form the peninsula known as Federal Point, which, during the civil war, was called Confederate Point. Not quite seven miles north of the end of this peninsula stood a high sand-hill called the Sugar Loaf. Here there was an intrenched camp for the Army of Wilmington, under General Braxton Bragg, the department commander, that was hid from the sea by forest and sand-hills. From this intrenche
Bridgeport (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 14.96
ly telegraphed General Bragg, at Sugar Loaf : The enemy are about to assault; they outnumber us heavily. We are just manning our parapets. Fleet have extended down the sea-front outside and are firing very heavily. Enemy on the beach in front of us in very heavy force, not more than seven hundred yards from us. Nearly all land guns disabled. Attack! Attack! It is all I can say and all you can do. The original, in Whiting's handwriting, is in possession of Dr. Geo. L. Porter, Bridgeport, Conn.--W. L. The bombardment of Fort Fisher, as seen from the mound Battery. From a War-time sketch. I then passed hurriedly down in rear of the land-face and through the galleries, and although the fire of the fleet was terrific, I knew it must soon cease, and I ordered additional sharp-shooters to the gun-chambers with instructions to pick off the officers in the assaulting columns, and directed the battery commanders to form their detachments and rush to the top of the parapets w
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 14.96
e great victory was not fully realized by the American people. The position commanded the last gateway between the Confederate States and the outside world. [See outline map, p. 629; also map, p. 694.] Its capture, with the resulting loss of all thmmanding the inlet, its two 11-inch guns covering the approach by land. It was garrisoned by a detachment from the Confederate States navy. An advanced redoubt with a 24-pounder was added after the attack by the forces under General Butler and Admi700 arrived,--companies of light and heavy artillery, North Carolina troops, and some 50 sailors and marines of the Confederate States navy,--giving me 1500, all told, up to the morning of January 15th, including the sick and slightly wounded. On Frt it was able to reduce it in spite of all I could do. . . . editors. One thousand tons of iron were gathered by the United States from the works. Had there been no fleet to assist the army at Fort Fisher the Federal infantry could not have dare
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