Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina
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Excerpt from Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina: Jan; 15, 1865 About the first of December, 1864, when in command of the 2d Division, 24th Corps, of the Army of the James, then before Richmond, Va., I was notified I had been selected to lead my division in a movement, by sea, against some point of the Confederacy on the Atlantic coast. At that time Wilmington, N. C., was the port through which the Confederacy received a large part of its munitions of war, and whence was shipped to England, in payment therefor, much of its cotton and tobacco. Wilmington was situated on the east bank of the Cape Fear River, thirty miles from its mouth, which was guarded by Fort Fisher. Our Navy was untiring in its efforts to blockade that port; but was not successful. The order from Gen. Butler to Gen. Weitzel relative to the expedition December 6th, 1864, was: "The Major General commanding has entrusted you with the command of the expedition about to embark for the North Carolina coast. It will consist of 6,500 infantry, two batteries and fifty cavalry. The effective men of Gen. Ames´s division of the 24th Corps will furnish the infantry force. Gen. Paine is under your orders and Gen. Ames will be ordered to report to you in person immediately." My division, of three brigades, was composed of New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana troops, about 3,300 in number. Gen. Paine had a division of colored troops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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