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Fort Johnston (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
them there. This order, however, was rescinded on General Whiting's appeal, and he was allowed to keep the whole. With this garrison I considered the fort perfectly safe and capable of standing any length of siege. I am at a loss to know what day the General refers to. No reinforcements came from him on Saturday, the 14th, but during the day, Sunday, the 15th, Colonel Graham arrived at Battery Buchanan with his brigade. He did not land all of them, but telegraphed General Bragg from Smithville at 1 o'clock P. M.: As instructed by you about four hundred of my men landed at Fisher. The rest were prevented by the fire of the enemy. I will go there to night unless otherwise instructed. About three hundred and fifty of these men reported to me just previous to the assault, and they were all of the one thousand of Bragg's best men, whom he started for the fort, who got there. General Bragg is not accurate. Up to the arrival of the three hundred and fifty South Carolinians I had b
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
de a single meal, but had to subsist on uncooked rations and corn-meal coffee, when they were without overcoats or blankets to make them a bed in the sand, I heard no murmur of complaint, but witnessed deeds of heroism unsurpassed in ancient or modern story. I beheld acts of individual daring which would brighten the pages of history, or lend a charm to poetry. Side by side, as privates in the ranks, were brilliant youths, with as proud a lineage as any American could boast, and illiterate tillers of the soil, stirred with a patriotic love of home and State, sharing common hardships and dangers with that solid middle class, who, while not as reckless, were equally resolute. Nowhere, and at no time, in that or any struggle for right and country, did the sons of Carolina ever fill to greater overflowing the full measure of patriotic duty, and their State will be recreant to her past renown and her present greatness if she fails to defend from defamation their stainless reputations.
Cape Fear (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
r had such an opportunity to watch the movements of the enemy, and direct the management of his forces with such slight personal danger as General Bragg. The Cape Fear river, with its channel at least three-quarters of a mile from the open beach upon which the enemy had landed, gave him an unobstructed view from a deck of a vesselTerry, in his official report, says: The first object which I had in view, after landing, was to throw a strong defensive line across the peninsula from Cape Fear river to the sea, facing Wilmington, so as to protect our rear from attack while we should be engaged in operating against Fisher. * * * Shortly before 5 o'clock, lic 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. T
Fort Fisher (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
ish the two following papers on the fall of Fort Fisher. General Bragg's letter to his brother, wrintirely across the peninsula between us and Fort Fisher, and strongly entrenched, having, no doubt,y could get nearer to us than they could to Fort Fisher, and could sweep every-thing to the middle in which he seeks to take from the dead of Fort Fisher an imperishable renown, and in which he seeould have watched the Second attack upon Fort Fisher. progress of the enemy and directed his fo by you about four hundred of my men landed at Fisher. The rest were prevented by the fire of the e Headquarters, Third military district, Fort Fisher, 1.30 P. M., January 14, 1865. General Brag permitted to remain there the reduction of Fort Fisher is but a question of time. This has been niquor, or were under its influence while in Fort Fisher, and I beg all who know me, or who cherish ntil the second expedition appeared against Fort Fisher, January 13th, 1865, the work was neglected[15 more...]
Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7.63
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 for me? Our only trouble is to get enough to eat, as we pay our board in kind. No one will take a boarder here or anywhere now for money. * * Braxton
Vance (search for this): chapter 7.63
eneral Bragg for guns to replace those destroyed, for new carriages in place of those rendered useless, for additional ammunition, especially hand grenades, to repulse assaults. I asked that sub-marine torpedoes be placed where the ironclads had anchored, and where they would and did return. General Whiting approved all my requests. I felt sure that the enemy would return with redoubled vigor, and nothing being done to assist me to repair damages, or strengthen my position, I wrote to Governor Vance, and appealed to him to aid me in getting General Bragg to realize our situation. But no assistance was rendered, and I was not even warned of the returning fleet, but reported its reappearance to Wilmington from the fort. I have never complained of this, and mention it now to show the utter neglect with which the fort was treated by the Commanding-General, who seeks to throw the whole responsibility of the loss of Fort Fisher upon my garrison. In those sixty hours of continuous bat
Abbott (search for this): chapter 7.63
g, was to throw a strong defensive line across the peninsula from Cape Fear river to the sea, facing Wilmington, so as to protect our rear from attack while we should be engaged in operating against Fisher. * * * Shortly before 5 o'clock, leaving Abbott's brigade to cover our stores, the troops were put in motion. On arriving at it, the pond was found to be a sand-flat, sometimes covered with water, giving no assistance to the defense of a line established behind it. Nevertheless, it was determnion that their troops were unequal to the task. I moved forward with them, and made a close examination, and after a conference confirmed their opinion, and decided not to attack. Humane commander! This line was held by Paine's division and Abbott's brigade, all colored troops, and numbering less than Hoke's division. General Bragg says: The enemy had landed without artillery, and not even a general officer brought a horse. While General Terry reports: Early in the morning
Archer Anderson (search for this): chapter 7.63
my command by order of General Bragg. It was he who failed to bring in the reinforcements sent to the fort on Saturday. General Bragg never sent the order on Saturday; but here is a copy of the original, dated on Sunday: Sugar-Loaf, January 15--sent at 1.25 P. M. General Whiting: Colonel Colquitt assigned to immediate command of Fort Fisher. Will go there to-night. General Bragg directs you to report in person at these headquarters this evening, for conference and instructions. Archer Anderson, A. A. G. This order, sent at the critical moment of the impending assault, and removing a gifted, brilliant and courageous hero, whose men loved him, and would follow him into the jaws of death, and supplanting him with a Georgia militia General, unknown to the garrison, was an act in keeping with the whole of General Bragg's conduct of the defence of Wilmington. The letter continues: About 3 o'clock P. M. Sunday evening, General Whiting informed me the enemy was moving, a
Braxton Bragg (search for this): chapter 7.63
ed my breast when I read the letter of General Braxton Bragg to his brother, in which he seeks to tt was going on in his command than did General Braxton Bragg. The letter continues: No hum this in the face of the army commanded by General Bragg, who censures my garrison for not holding him, and he did move towards the fort, but General Bragg did not follow. Cavalry on the beach at nn front of them in reconnoitring. While General Bragg and his army slumbered, the industrious Fe a precarious position? I understood that General Bragg would take advantage of the darkness on thin force as soon as I heard the advance of General Bragg, but I waited in vain for him to avail himnt, W. H. C. Whiting, Major-General. General Bragg goes on to say: As a good officer haitt came up to me and I told him even then, if Bragg would attack vigorously and he would land a frd many men were too drunk for duty. For General Bragg to repeat the slanders, circulated, we pre[37 more...]
J. Longstreet (search for this): chapter 7.63
north of Fort Fisher to the head of the 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 co
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