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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Our Wilmington correspondent states that an English officer who was with Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic, and who was also at Sebastopol, says that the fire of the Federal fleet upon Fort Fisher on the 24th ultimo exceeded anything he had ever seen. But fearful as this bombardment was, it was a mere prelude to the infernal fire of Christmas day.--From ten in the morning till six in the evening, there was "such a rain of shot and shell as never before fell upon any spot of earth since gunpowder was invented." And yet the fort remained uninjured, and not a dozen men were killed. Colonel Lamb and his brave garrison have covered themselves with immortal renown; the former not more by the heroical fortitude of his defence than by the signal forethought, judgment and energy by which he was prepared for the terrific collision. If all our fortifications had been in such hands, the Confederacy would be spared many a humiliating page in its history. If anything is now clearly d
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Wilmington. (search)
ll gauge the meed of praise due him by the extent and formidable character of the enemy's force, and the limited means by which he met and baffled him. The reader may form some idea of the nature of the enemy's fire when he is told that nothing could live in the open space in the rear and front of the fort, and that even camp dogs and pigs were killed several hundred yards behind the fort. Scouts report that Butler made a speech at Newbern last week, in which he promised to eat his Christmas dinner in Wilmington. They report, also, that parts of a negro regiment and of the Fifth United States regulars were lost at sea during the gale. Only two blockaders were visible off the bar to-day. Congratulatory order of General Bragg to the troops at Wilmington. Headquarters Department of North Carolina, Wilmington, December 29, 1864. General Orders, No. 17. The commanding general desires to congratulate the officers and men engaged in the recent operations near this
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Yankee press on. The Wilmington failure. (search)
r of his late operations against Fort Fisher and its supporting rebel batteries leads us to these conclusions: That "some one has blundered"; that the fort, on Christmas day, could have been easily captured by the land forces under General Butler, and that in failing to make the experiment he lost a fine opportunity for a great sucordered to make baste and return with his troops to Fortress Monroe, General Butler committed the greatest mistake of his whole military career in deciding, on Christmas day; against an attempt to carry Fort Fisher at the point of the bayonet, as it might have been carried in a rapid dash of a thousand, or even five hundred, men. rant been on the ground, the opinion of the General and the Admiral would have been the same, and that the result would have been the capture of Fort Fisher on Christmas day. [from the New York Tribune Correspondence.] General Weitzel is known to have advanced his skirmish line within fifty yards of the fort, while the fir