. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . n thegunners the fury of the fleet. Early in the after-noon, to my astonishment, I saw a Confederateflat-bottomed steam-transport, loaded with stores, approaching Craigs Landing, which was now inthe enemys lines. I had a gun fired toward herto warn her off, but on she came, unconscious ofher danger, and she fell an easy captive in theenemys hands. Shortly after, the Confederatesteamer Chickamauga, which had been annoyingthe enemy from the river, fired into and sank thestupid craft
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . n thegunners the fury of the fleet. Early in the after-noon, to my astonishment, I saw a Confederateflat-bottomed steam-transport, loaded with stores, approaching Craigs Landing, which was now inthe enemys lines. I had a gun fired toward herto warn her off, but on she came, unconscious ofher danger, and she fell an easy captive in theenemys hands. Shortly after, the Confederatesteamer Chickamauga, which had been annoyingthe enemy from the river, fired into and sank thestupid craft. This incident gave me the first inti-mation that we were deserted. From the con-formation of the Cape Fear River, General Braggcould have passed safely from Sugar Loaf towardSmithfield, and with a glass could have seen every-thing on the beach and in the fort, and in personor through an aide, with the steamers at his com-mand, could have detected every movement of theenemy; but now, thirty-six hours after the fighthad commenced, several hours after Craigs Land-ing had been in the possession of the enemy, he. AkW LIEUTENANT WILEY H. WILLIFORD, C. S. A PHOTOGRAPH. sent into the enemys lines a steamer full of sorelyneeded stores, which at night could have gone toBattery Buchanan in safety. We had both tele- THE DEFENSE OF FORT FISHER. 649 graphic and signal communication between FortFisher and Sugar Loaf, Braggs headquarters, andI got General Whiting to telegraph him to attackthe enemy under cover of night when the fleetcould not cooperate, and we would do the samefrom the fort, and that thus we could capturea portion or the whole of the force, or at leastdemoralize it. No reply was received. Still Ithought General Bragg could not fail to respond ;so, after the dead were buried, ten companies wereput in readiness for a sortie, and I carried CaptainPattersons company out in front of the workbeyond the palisade line and the range of the en-emys fire, and threw them out as s
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