. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Arttcns mttl| tl|^ iFnrts to their astonished gaze a ne^v and what appeared to them amore tremendous aggregation of fighting ships than hefore,Avith transports carrying troops. General Alfred H. Terry,with a force of about eight thousand men, had been assigned,this time, to the duty of cooperating with the fleet for the reduc-tion of Fort Fisher. The fleet consisted of forty-nine vesselsof the heaviest class, with six hundred and twenty-seven guns. On the morning of the 13th, the fleet stood close in andengaged the batteries, whose
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Arttcns mttl| tl|^ iFnrts to their astonished gaze a ne^v and what appeared to them amore tremendous aggregation of fighting ships than hefore,Avith transports carrying troops. General Alfred H. Terry,with a force of about eight thousand men, had been assigned,this time, to the duty of cooperating with the fleet for the reduc-tion of Fort Fisher. The fleet consisted of forty-nine vesselsof the heaviest class, with six hundred and twenty-seven guns. On the morning of the 13th, the fleet stood close in andengaged the batteries, whose guns replied under the same in-structions as during the first bombardment: that is, to husbandtlieir ammunition by firing very slowly, except when necessaryto concentrate on a special vessel. During the day and night ofthe 13th, about seven hundred men arrived as reenforcements,making in all about fifteen hundred in the garrison. The bombardment lasted during the 13th and 14th with-out abatement. The Federal troops landed on the 13th at al^oint about four m
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