. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . l Sundaynight, says: On Thursday night the enemys fleet was reportedoff the fort. On Friday morning the fleet opened veryheavily. On Friday and Saturday, during the furiousbombardment of the fort, the enemy was allowed toland without molestation and to throw up a light line offield-works from Battery Ramseur to the river, thussecuring his position from molestation and making thefate of Fort Fisher, under the circumstances, but aquestion of time, On Sunday, the fire on the fort reached a pitch offury to which no language can do justice.
. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . l Sundaynight, says: On Thursday night the enemys fleet was reportedoff the fort. On Friday morning the fleet opened veryheavily. On Friday and Saturday, during the furiousbombardment of the fort, the enemy was allowed toland without molestation and to throw up a light line offield-works from Battery Ramseur to the river, thussecuring his position from molestation and making thefate of Fort Fisher, under the circumstances, but aquestion of time, On Sunday, the fire on the fort reached a pitch offury to which no language can do justice. It wasconcentrated on the land face and front. In a shorttime nearly every gun was dismounted or disabled, garrison suffered severely by the fire. At threeoclock the enemys land force, which had been graduallyand slowly advancing, formed in two columns for garrison, dining the tierce bombardment, was notable to stand to the parapets, and many of the reinforce-ments were obliged to be kept a great distance from the w o a W> O HC in. 92 fort. As the enemy slackened his lire to allow theassault to take place, the men hastily manned theramparts and gallantly repulsed the right column ofassault. A portion of the troops on the left had alsorepulsed the first rush to the left of the work. Thegreater portion of the garrison being, however, engagedon the right, and not being able to man the entire work,the enemy succeeded in making a lodgement on the leftflank, planting two of his regimental flags in thetraverses. From this point we could not dislodge him,though we forced him to take down his flag from the Areof our most distant guns, our own traverses protectinghim from such fire. From this time it was a successionof fighting from traverse to traverse and from line toline until nine oclock at night, when we were over-powered and all resistance ceased. The fall both of the General and the Colonel com-manding the fort—one about four and the other aboutIonr-tnirt
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