Jan. 15, 1865. |
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| Bombardment of Fort Fisher.1 |
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A careful reconnoissance determined Terry to make a grand assault there next morning,
and arrangements were accordingly made with Porter, whose fleet had already been preparing the way for success.
On the morning of the 13th, it had taken its station in three lines, as we have observed.
The New Ironsides, Commodore Radford,
leading the monitors Saugus, Canonicus, Monadnoc, and Mahopac, moved toward the fort and received its fire unnoticed until they reached a position
1 in this plan, the general form of Fort Fisher, described in note 4, page 478, is indicated. Fort Buchanan, on the extreme end of Federal Point, was almost due west from Mound Battery, and about once and a half the distance from the latter, that Mound Battery was from the northeast salient of Fort Fisher.
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